Inquests and Post-Mortem Examinations (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey) Rules 2004

 

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)

“second schedule

The fees and costs for inquests and post-mortem examinations shall be as follows -

1

(a)   for a medical practitioner making a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased and reporting the result to the Viscount

£89

 

(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

£200

2

for a medical practitioner making a post-mortem examination under paragraph 1 if the medical practitioner appears as a witness at the inquest

£66.50

3

for any other medical practitioner appearing as a witness at the inquest

£50.00

4

for any other medical practitioner supplying the Viscount with a medical report relating to the deceased

£45.00

5

for each member of the inquest jury

up to £14.00 per day

6

for a witness attending an inquest (at the discretion of the Viscount) –

 

 

(a)   for loss of earnings resulting from attendance

up to £43.00 per half day

 

(b)   for reasonable expenses of travel to and from Jersey and subsistence for a witness necessarily travelling to the Island

up to the amount of the expenses actually and necessarily incurred

7

for medical practitioner making a histological examination of tissue samples

At the discretion of the Viscount, up to £15.00 per sample for a maximum of 5 samples per case.”.

 


 



[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.

[4] No. 139/2001.


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