Coroners (Amendment) Act 2019

Amendment of section 8 of Principal Act

5. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsections (2) and (2A):

“(2) Subject to sections 6A and 7, the coroner for a coroner’s district shall be appointed by the local authority in whose area the district is situate.”,

and

(b) in subsection (3), by the substitution of “Subject to sections 6A and 7, the office of coroner shall be an office” for “The office of coroner shall be an office”.