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Coroners (Emergency Provisions) Act 1917

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 5 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1917 c. 19
Year1917


Coroners (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1917.

(7 & 8 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 19.

An Act to reduce, in connection with the present War, the Number of Jurors at Coroners' Inquests.

[24th May 1917]

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 Number of coroner's jury.

1 Number of coroner's jury.

1.‘Seven’ and ‘eleven’ shall be substituted for ‘twelve’ and ‘twenty-three’ respectively in section three of the Coroners Act, 1887, as the minimum and maximum number of jurors who are to be summoned by a coroner, and ‘seven’ shall accordingly also be substituted for ‘twelve’ in subsection (3) of that section and subsection (5) of section four of the Coroners Act, 1887.

S-2 Short title and duration.

2 Short title and duration.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Coroners (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1917.

(2) This Act shall have effect only during the continuance of the present war and for a period of six months after the termination thereof.

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