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• Coroners 
• 1 Short title
• PART I Preliminary
  • 2 Interpretation
  • 2A Coroner for Barbados
  • 2B Transitional provisions
• PART II Procedure in Cases of Unnatural Deaths
  • 3 Report of unnatural death
  • 4 Duty of police
  • 5 Duty of coroner
  • 6 Power of coroner to dispense with inquest
  • 7 Order for post mortem examination
  • 8 Report of examination
• PART III Inquests
  • 9 Inquest on body of prisoner
  • 10 Inquest where body is not available
  • 11 Procedure in cases of murder, manslaughter or infanticide
  • 12 Abolition of coroner’s juries and modification of provisions relating to inquests
  • 13 Coroner may view body at an inquest
  • 14 Nature of investigation
  • 15 Summoning and examining witnesses
  • 16 Witness not attending
  • 17 Committal of recalcitrant witness
  • 18 Where cause of death not satisfactorily explained
  • 19 Verdict or finding of coroner
  • 20 Adjournment
  • 21 Coroner to transmit record of proceedings to Registrar and Director of Public Prosecutions
  • 22 Exhumation of body
• PART IV Offences
  • 23 Non-compliance by medical practitioner or specially qualified person with order of coroner
  • 24 Burial of body without authority
  • 25 Obstruction of person acting under Act
• PART V Miscellaneous
  • 26 Fees
  • 27 Communication of orders by telephone
  • 28 Rules
  • 29 Forms
  • 30 Savings