CORONERS’ SYSTEMS LAW OF LAGOS STATE

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]  

CORONERS’ SYSTEM LAW

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

General Provisions

1.       Establishment of the State Coroners’ System

2.       Office of the Chief Coroner

3.       Functions of the Chief Coroner

4.       Appointment of Coroners

5.       Power to divide the State into Coroner’s Districts

6.       Establishment of Coroner’s Court in each district

7.       Establishment of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

8.       Structure of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

9.       Qualification for the post of Chief Medical Examiner

10.     Functions of the Chief Medical Examiner

11.     Office of the District Medical Examiner

12.     Functions of the District Medical Examiner

13.     Finance of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

14.     Report of death

15.     When inquest to be held

16.     Tampering with bodies

17.     Power to order exhumation

18.     Inquest on all deaths occurring in custody

19.     Death in execution of a judgment of Court

20.     Inquest to be held by the Coroner of the place where body is found

21.     Inquest where body is destroyed or irrecoverable

22.     Postponement of chemical preservation or disposal until after inquest

23.     Notice of death

24.     Protection of informant of reportable death

25.     Duty of agencies for report of death

Post-Mortem Examination

26.     Coroner may direct post-mortem examination

27.     Medical Examiner to perform a post-mortem examination and report his findings

28.     Retention of human tissue

29.     Payment of storage fees

30.     Retention of abandoned bodies for academic and anatomical examination

Procedure at Inquest

31.     Provisions regarding the viewing of body

32.     Coroner may exercise powers of a Magistrate

33.     Coroner to take evidence on oath

34.     Coroner not bound by rules of evidence

35.     Power to take deposition of witness who is unable to attend

36.     Coroner to grant standing to interested persons

37.     Protection of witnesses

38.     Staying and resumption of inquest

39.     Order for arrest of suspect

40.     The inquisition

41.     Authorities to receive the verdict

42.     Where the culprit is unknown

43.     Where the culprit cannot be found

44.     Return of inquisitions and powers of Chief Coroner to review

45.     Power of Chief Coroner on application of Attorney-General

46.     Inquest on any day including public holidays or in private

47.     Coroner to transmit particulars of death to the Registrar of Births and Deaths

48.     Offences and penalties

49.     Power to make rules and regulations

50.     Forms in the Second Schedule

51.     Repeal

52.     Interpretation

53.     Citation and Commencement

CORONER’S SYSTEM LAW

A LAW TO ESTABLISH THE LAGOS STATE CORONERS’ SYSTEM, REGULATE THE PROCESS OF DEATH INVESTIGATION AND FOR CONNECTED PURPOSES

[Commencement]           [18th May 2007]

THE LAGOS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY enacts as follows:

General Provisions

1.      Establishment of the Lagos State Coroners’ System

(1)     There is established a Coroners’ System for the State;

(2)     The Coroners’ System shall be under the control and administration of the Chief Coroner of the State.

LAWS OF LAGOS STATE

LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA