The Norfolk (Coroners’ Districts) Order 2010
Made: 2nd March 2010
Laid before Parliament: 4th March 2010
Coming into force: 1st April 2010
The Secretary of State has made such modifications to the draft as he thinks fit and makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4(2) of the Coroners Act 1988:
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- (1) This Order may be cited as the Norfolk (Coroners’ Districts) Order 2010 and shall come into force on 1st April 2010.
- (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-mortem examination which, before that day, a coroner has directed or requested a medical practitioner to make.
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The existing Greater Norfolk Coroner’s District and Great Yarmouth Coroner’s District shall be amalgamated to form a single coroner’s district called the Norfolk Coroner’s District.
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The Norfolk (Coroners’ Districts) Order 2007[^f00003] is revoked.
Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Bridget Prentice — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Ministry of Justice — 2nd March 2010
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The County of Norfolk was divided into two coroners’ districts, called Greater Norfolk Coroner’s District and Great Yarmouth Coroner’s District, by the Norfolk (Coroners’ Districts) Order 2007.
This Order amalgamates those two districts to create a single coroner’s district. The County of Norfolk now comprises a single coroner’s district known as the Norfolk Coroner’s district.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1988 c.13. Section 4(2) was amended by paragraph 82(4) of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c.19) and is to be repealed by section 178 of, and Part 1 of Schedule 23 to, the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c.25).
[^f00002]: S.I. 1927/343.
[^f00003]: S.I. 2007/737.
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