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Coroners Act 1921

As Enacted Cited authorities 1 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1921 c. 30
Year1921


Coroners Act, 1921

(11 & 12 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 30.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Remuneration of Coroners.

[28th July 1921]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Increase in coroners' remuneration.

1 Increase in coroners' remuneration.

(1) Every authority charged with the payment of a coroner's remuneration may, as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, proceed to revise the rate of the salary or of the fees, as the case may be, payable to the coroner, and in so doing shall have regard to the increase which has taken place, since the outbreak of the war, in the cost of living and travelling, and in other expenditure necessarily incurred by coroners in the performance of their duties, and to all the other relevant circumstances of the case.

The revised rates of remuneration fixed under this subsection shall be deemed to have been in operation as from the passing of this Act.

(2) The County Coroners Act, 1860 , shall have effect as if the revision of a salary under this Act were a revision of a salary after a lapse of five years under that Act, and that Act shall have effect accordingly.

S-2 Short title and extent.

2 Short title and extent.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Coroners Act, 1921 .

(2) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

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