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R&O – 32/2004
Inquests and
Post-Mortem Examinations (Amendment No. 4)
(Jersey) Rules 2004
Made 29th April 2004
Coming into force 1st
May 2004
THE SUPERIOR NUMBER OF THE ROYAL COURT, in pursuance of Article 25 of
the Inquests and
Post-Mortem Examinations (Jersey) Law 1995[1] and Article 11 of the Royal
Court (Jersey) Law 1948,[2] has made the following
Rules –
1 Inquests and Post-Mortem Examinations
(Jersey) Rules 1995 amended
For the Second Schedule to the Inquests and Post-Mortem Examinations (Jersey)
Rules 1995[3] there shall be substituted
the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Rules.
2 Revocation
The Inquests and Post-Mortem
Examinations (Amendment No. 3) (Jersey) Rules 2001[4] are revoked.
3 Citation
and commencement
These Rules may be cited as the Inquests and Post-Mortem
Examinations (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey) Rules 2004 and shall come into
force on 1st May 2004.
M. WILKINS
Judicial Greffier.
SCHEDULE
(Rule 1)
The fees and costs for inquests and post-mortem examinations shall
be as follows -
1
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(a) for a medical practitioner making
a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased and reporting the
result to the Viscount
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£89
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(a) for a medical practitioner making
a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased requiring special
skills, additional work and responsibility and reporting the result to the
Viscount
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£200
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2
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for a medical practitioner
making a post-mortem examination under paragraph 1 if the medical
practitioner appears as a witness at the inquest
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£66.50
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3
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for any other medical
practitioner appearing as a witness at the inquest
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£50.00
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4
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for any other medical practitioner
supplying the Viscount with a medical report relating to the deceased
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£45.00
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5
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for each member of the
inquest jury
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up to £14.00 per day
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6
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for a witness attending an
inquest (at the discretion of the Viscount) –
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|
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(a) for loss of earnings resulting
from attendance
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up to £43.00 per half day
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(b) for reasonable expenses of travel
to and from Jersey and subsistence for a witness necessarily travelling to
the Island
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up to the amount of the expenses actually and necessarily incurred
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7
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for medical practitioner
making a histological examination of tissue samples
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At the discretion of the Viscount, up to £15.00 per sample
for a maximum of 5 samples per case.”.
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[1] Recueil des Lois, Volume 1994-1995, page
287.
[2] Recueil des Lois, Tome VII, page 510,
Volume 1996-1997, page 147 and Volume 2001, page 7.
[3] Nos. 8825 and 139/2001.
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