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The Kent (Coroners' Districts) (Amendment) Order 1996

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 1996-02-27

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Made: 27th February 1996

Laid before Parliament: 6th March 1996

Coming into force: 15th April 1996

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by that section 4(2) and after taking into consideration an objection to the draft made in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed time, I hereby make the following Order:

Citation

1

This Order may be cited as the Kent (Coroners' Districts) (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall be read as one with the Kent (Coroners' Districts) Order 1974[^f00003].

Commencement and application

2

(1) This Order shall come into force on 15th April 1996.

(2) This Order shall not have effect in relation to any inquest begun before the day on which it comes into force or to any post-morten examination which, before that day, a coroner has directed or requested a medical practitioner to make.

Alteration of Kent coroners' districts

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(1) The existing North Kent coroner’s district of the county of Kent shall be abolished.

(2) The existing West Kent coroner’s district, Maidstone coroner’s district and Canterbury and Dover coroner’s district shall be altered by transferring the areas specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order from the coroners' districts named in column 2 of the Schedule to the coroners' districts named in column 3 of the Schedule.

Renaming of Kent coroners' districts

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(1) The existing West Kent coroner’s district shall be renamed as the North West Kent coroner’s district.

(2) The existing Maidstone coroner’s district shall be renamed as the Mid Kent and Medway coroner’s district.

(3) The existing Canterbury and Dover coroner’s district shall be renamed as the East Kent coroner’s district.

SCHEDULE

1.	2.	3.
Area now comprised in Coroner’s District named in Column 2 and to be transferred to Coroner’s District named in Column 3	Coroner’s District in which the area specified in Column 1 is now comprised	Coroner’s District to which the area specified in Column 1 is to be transferred
The District of Dartford and the District of Gravesham	North Kent District	West Kent District
In the District of Tonbridge and Malling, the parishes of Wouldham, Burham, Aylesford, Snodland, Birling, East Malling and Larkfield, Ditton, Leybourne, Ryarsh, Trottiscliffe, Addington, Offham, West Malling, Mereworth, Wateringbury and East Peckham	West Kent District	Maidstone District
The City of Rochester Upon Medway, the District of Gillingham, and the District of Swale with the exception of Faversham and the parishes of Teynham, Lynsted, Doddington, Newnham, Norton and Buckland, Stone, Luddenham, Oare, Ospringe, Eastling, Stalisfield, Throwley, Sheldwich Badlesmere and Leaveland, Selling, Boughton Under Blean, Graveney with Goodnestone, Hernhill, Dunkirk	North Kent District	Maidstone District
In the District of Swale, Faversham and the parishes of Teynham, Lynsted, Doddington, Newnham, Norton and Buckland, Stone, Luddenham, Oare, Ospringe, Eastling, Stalisfield, Throwley, Sheldwich Badlesmere and Leaveland, Selling, Boughton under Blean, Graveney with Goodnestone, Hernhill, Dunkirk	North Kent District	Canterbury and Dover District

Signed

Michael Howard — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 27th February 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The County of Kent was divided into six coroners' districts by the Kent (Coroners' Districts) Order 1974 (S.I. 1974/302).

This Order abolishes the North Kent coroner’s district and divides the areas currently within that district between the West Kent district (renamed the North West Kent district), the Maidstone district (renamed the Mid Kent and Medway district) and the Canterbury and Dover district (renamed the East Kent district).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 13.

[^f00002]: S.R. & O. 1927/343.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1974/302.

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