Section 5 Coroner’s inquest on body.C1
United Kingdom
The coroner of the jurisdiction to which the prison belongs wherein judgment of death is executed on any offender shall within twenty-four hours after the execution hold an inquest on the body of the offender; and the jury at the inquest shall inquire into and ascertain the identity of the body, and whether judgment of death was duly executed on the offender; and the inquisition shall be in duplicate, and one of the originals shall be delivered to the sheriff . . . F1
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words repealed by Coroners Act 1887 (c. 71), s. 45, Sch. 3
Modifications
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S. 5 applied with modifications by Army Act 1955 (c. 18), s. 128(1) and Air Force Act 1955 (c. 19), s. 128(1)
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed, except as applied by any other enactment, by Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 (c. 71), s. 3, Sch.; and Act repealed in so far as still in force (9.11.1998) by virtue of Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42), ss. 21(5), 22(2) (with ss. 7(8), 22(5))