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Provisions as to Magistrate’s or Coroner’s inquiries and as to removal of bodies of deceased persons

Visiting Forces Act 1960

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—(1) If any Magistrate or Coroner having jurisdiction to hold an inquiry touching a death is satisfied that the deceased person at the time of his death had a relevant association with a visiting force, then unless the Minister otherwise directs the Magistrate or Coroner shall not hold the inquiry or, if the inquiry has been begun but not completed, shall adjourn the inquiry.(2) Subject to subsection (1), if on an inquiry touching a death the Magistrate or Coroner is satisfied —(a)that a person who in accordance with section 6 is subject to the jurisdiction of the service courts of a country to which this section applies has been charged before a court of that country with causing the death of the deceased person, whether or not that charge has been dealt with; or(b)that such a person is being detained by an authority of that country with a view to being so charged,then unless the Minister otherwise directs the Magistrate or Coroner shall adjourn the inquiry, and shall furnish the registrar of deaths with a certificate stating the particulars necessary for the registration of the death so far as they have been ascertained at the inquiry.(3) Where an inquiry is adjourned under this section, the Magistrate or Coroner shall not resume it except on the direction of the Minister and, if the Magistrate or Coroner does resume it, shall proceed in all respects as if the inquiry had not previously been begun, except that it shall not be obligatory on the Magistrate or Coroner to view the body or to furnish the registrar of deaths with any certificate or further certificate, as the case may be.(4) Subject to subsection (5), any law in force in Singapore restricting the removal out of Singapore of the body of a deceased person shall not apply to the body of a person who at the time of his death had a relevant association with a visiting force.(5) Subsection (4) shall not apply as respects the body of a person concerning whose death, by virtue of a direction of the Minister under subsection (1) or (3), an inquiry is required to be held or, if begun, is required to be resumed.(6) Notwithstanding anything in any law of Singapore relating to certificates to be given to persons giving information concerning deaths, a certificate shall not be given under that law to the person giving information concerning a death if that person states that the body is one as respects which subsection (4) has effect and that it is proposed to remove the body out of Singapore.

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