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The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 21) Order 2023

S.I. 2023/1036 · Made 20 September 2023

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MEDICAL PROFESSION, ENGLAND AND WALES

CORONERS, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 20th September 2023

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 182(5) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2009 c. 25; there are amendments to section 182 which are not relevant to this Order.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and extent
  2. 2Commencement of provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and extent

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 21) Order 2023.

(2)

This Order extends to England and Wales.

2Commencement of provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009

The following provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 come into force on 1st October 2023—

(a)

section 19 (medical examiners: supplementary)f1, and

(b)

section 20 (medical certificate of cause of death)f2.

Signature

Markham

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Health and Social Care

20th September 2023

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order commences sections 19 and 20 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25) on 1st October 2023.

Section 19 makes provision in relation to the appointment of medical examiners and confers powers on appropriate Ministers to make regulations in relation to medical examiners.

Section 20 confers a power on the Secretary of State to make regulations in relation to the preparation of medical certificates of cause of death.