Legislation

The main legislative framework for the coroner’s court is found in the following Tasmanian legislation:

Note: the Coroners Regulations 1996 and 2006 have been repealed.

Information from the relevant sections of the legislation above has been incorporated into the body of this document.

There are sections relevant to the coroner’s court contained in other legislation, including but not limited to:

  • Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1999 (Tas)
    • s 37 – notification by funeral director
    • s 32 – deaths to be registered under this Act
    • s 34 – circumstances in which death not to be registered
    • s 35 – notification of death by doctor
    • s 36 – notification by coroner
  • Burial and Cremation Act 2002 (Tas)
    • s 38 – exhumation of human remains
    • s 39 – reopening of graves
    • s 40 – use of Aboriginal land for Aboriginal cremations
    • s 41 – interment otherwise than in cemetery
    • s 42 – disposal of human remains at sea
  • Burial and Cremation Regulations 2015 (Tas)
  • Corrections Regulations 2008 (Tas)
    • s 30 – procedure on death of a prisoner or detainee
  • Human Tissue Act 1985 (Tas)
    • s 3 – interpretation
    • s 23 – authority to remove tissue where body of deceased at a hospital
    • s 24 – authority to remove tissue where body of deceased not at a hospital
    • s 26B – authority to perform non-coronial autopsy
    • s 26C – removal of tissue during non-coronial autopsy
    • s 28A – consent by coroner
    • s 30 – offences
  • Magistrates Court Act 1987 (Tas)
    • s 15 – arrangement of business of courts, and administrative matters
    • s 15AE – committee may make rules of court
  • Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity Act 1994 (Tas)
    • s 6A – information to coroner
  • Promissory Oaths Act 2015 (Tas)
    • s 10 – coroner
  • Supreme Court Civil Procedure Act 1932 (Tas)
  • Supreme Court Rules 2000 (Tas).