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Power to make rules.
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21.—The Minister for Justice may make rules for regulating the practice and procedure at or in connection with inquests and post-mortem examinations and, in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provision), such rules may provide—
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(a) as to the procedure at inquests held without a jury;
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(b) as to the issue by coroners of orders authorising burials;
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(c) for empowering a coroner or his deputy to alter the date fixed for the holding of an adjourned inquest within the jurisdiction of the coroner;
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(d) as to the procedure to be followed where a coroner decides not to resume an adjourned inquest; and
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(e) as to the notices to be given and as to the variation or discharge of any recognizances entered into by jurymen or witnesses where the date fixed for an adjourned inquest is altered or where a coroner decides not to resume an adjourned inquest.
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