Coroners-Doctors-Fees-Regulations-2022-Proactive-release.pdf [pdf, 995 KB]
...Under section 40 of the Coroners Act 2006 (the Act), a coroner may require a written report from a doctor who attended to a person before their death (a ‘section 40 report’). These reports are usually requested by coroners in the early stages of an investigation for the purpose of determining whether an inquiry is needed. 4 Currently there are no regulations to enable doctors to be reimbursed for this service, despite the Act empowering such regulations to be made. Similar regulations...