Medical witnesses.

  • New South Wales.
Date:
[1891]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical witnesses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    MEDICAL WITNESSES. An Act to provide for the attendance of Medical Wit- i victobia, nesses at Coroners’ Inquests and Inquiries held by Justices of the Peace. [13 June, 1838.] WHEllEAS an Act was passed in England in the sixth and seventli rroambie. year of Ilis late Majesty’s reign intituled An Act to provide for g ct 7 wm. iv. c. the attendance and remuneration of Medical Witnesses at Coroners’ P=isscd isao. Inquests and it is expedient to extend the several provisions of the said • Act to this Colony in the manner hereinafter mentioned Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the Attcmiiuice of advice of the Legislative Council thereof That after the passing of this *^^iJ,ncascs Act whenever upon the summoning or holding of any Coroner’s Inouest or upon the holding of any Inquiry by a Justice or Justices 01 the Peace touching the death of any person it shall appear to the Coroner coroner or jusUc« Justice or Justices (as the case may be) that the deceased person was not at or immediately before his death attended by any legally qualified wlu^^eceMS was Medical Practitioner it shall be lawful for such Coroner Justice or oT° Justices to issue a summons for the attendance as a witness at such Inquest or Inquiry of some legally qualified Medical Practitioner in Dcceaned ImvinK actual practice who shall reside near to the place where such Inquest or at the timo of or Inquiry is holden but that where the deceased person was attended Justice to ftummnn by any such Practitioner the Coroner J ustice or J ustices shall. issue a Hurlfattuudaucc summons for his attendance only or if the deceased was attended by j more than one such Practitioner the Coroner Justice or .Tustices may cause all or any of them to be summoned at his or their discretion. 2. And be it enacted That it shall be lawful for the Coroner .Justice coroner or justice* or .) ustices either in such summons as aforesaid or by an order in writing at any time before the tenniuation of the Inquest or Inquiry to direct' any legally qualified Medical Praclitiouer to perform a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased either with or without ^ iff 293—91