The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2014

Made: 26th November 2014

Laid before Parliament: 28th November 2014

Coming into force: 1st January 2015

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009[^f00001] and after consulting in accordance with that paragraph, makes the following Order.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2014 and comes into force on 1st January 2015.

Interpretation

2

In this Order—

• “coroner area” means a coroner area constituted by the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013[^f00002];

• “new coroner area” means the new coroner area resulting from the combining of the coroner areas as set out in Article 3 of this Order.

New coroner area

3

The coroner area of North and West Cumbria and the coroner area of South and East Cumbria are combined into the new coroner area of Cumbria.

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Simon Hughes — Minister of State — Ministry of Justice — 26th November 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013, which came into force on 25th July 2013, constituted the former coroners’ districts under the Coroners Act 1988 as corresponding coroner areas under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.

The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2013 combined nineteen of those coroner areas into nine areas.

This Order combines the coroner area of North and West Cumbria and the coroner area of South and East Cumbria into the new coroner area of Cumbria.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2009 c.25.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2013 No. 1625.