Coroners Act 1954
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1954 c. 31 |
Coroners Act, 1954
(2 & 3 Eliz. 2) 31
An Act to amend the law as to the fees and allowances payable by coroners to witnesses, to persons summoned to attend as witnesses and to medical practitioners making post mortem examinations by the coroner's direction or at the coroner's request.
Be it enacted by the Queen'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:—
1 Fees and expenses of witnesses and doctors to be regulated by rules of Secretary of State.
(1) The fees and allowances which may be lawfully paid by coroners—
(a ) to witnesses and persons summoned to attend as witnesses; and
(b ) to medical practitioners making post mortem examinations by the coroner's direction or at the coroner's request,
shall, instead of being such as are or may be prescribed by or under section twenty-five of the Coroners Act, 1887 , or section twenty-three or paragraph (b ) of subsection (2) of section twenty-nine of the Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1926 , be such as may be prescribed by rules to be made under this subsection (by statutory instrument) by the Secretary of State:
Provided that the preceding provisions of this subsection shall not affect the fees payable in respect of any such special examination of parts or contents of the body or other substances or things as is mentioned in paragraph (b ) of subsection (1) of section twenty-two of the Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1926, and accordingly the fees in respect of any such special examination made at the request of the coroner under that section shall be such as may be prescribed by the Schedule made by the local authority under the said section twenty-five or by the rules, if any, made by the Secretary of State under paragraph (b ) of subsection (2) of the said section twenty-nine.
(2) The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(3) This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order (which shall be a statutory instrument) appoint and nothing in this Act shall affect any fees or allowances paid before that day.
(4) Any increase attributable to the passing of this Act in the sums which under Part I of the Local Government Act, 1948 , or under...
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