# Coroners (Practice and Procedure) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Rules.)
These Rules amend the Coroners (Practice and Procedure) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1963 to substitute a new Rule 9 which will allow a person suspected or charged with causing death to be compellable as a witness at the inquest into the death (this had been precluded under the previous Rule 9(2)). The new Rule 9 provides that a witness at an inquest may decline to answer any question tending to incriminate himself or his spouse.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/37/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-practice-and-procedure-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2002/note
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