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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Coroners (Practice and Procedure) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1963 so as to—

  • substitute a new rule 19 to remove the need for a note of the evidence given by a witness at an inquest to be signed by the witness as well as the coroner;

  • substitute a new paragraph (2) in rule 38 to give a coroner sole discretion to decide whether to furnish to a properly interested person a copy of any document put in evidence at an inquest; and

  • substitute a new Form 5, which provides for the form of oath to be taken by a juror in a coroners’ court and removes the reference to our Sovereign Lady the Queen.