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The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2024

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Contents: 4 provisions
  1. Title and introductory text
  2. 1 Citation and commencement
  3. 2 Interpretation
  4. 3 New coroner areas

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4 provisions

Title and introductory text

2024 No. 304 CORONERS, ENGLAND AND WALES The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2024 Made 1st March 2024 Laid before Parliament 8th March 2024 Coming into force 1st April 2024 The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, and after consulting in accordance with that paragraph, makes the following Order.

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1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2024 and comes into force on 1st April 2024.

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2 Interpretation

In this Order— “coroner area” means a coroner area specified in any of the following— (a) the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Coroner Areas and Assistant Coroners) Transitional Order 2013; (b) the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2013; (c) the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Alteration of Coroner Areas) Order 2017; “new coroner area” means the new coroner area resulting from the combining of the coroner areas set out in each of paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of article 3.

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3 New coroner areas

(1) The following coroner areas are combined to create the new coroner area of Greater Lincolnshire— (a) North Lincolnshire and Grimsby; and (b) Lincolnshire. (2) The following coroner areas are combined to create the new coroner area of County of Devon, Plymouth and Torbay— (a) Exeter and Greater Devon; and (b) Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon. (3) The following coroner areas are combined to create the new coroner area of Northumberland— (a) North Northumberland; and (b) South Northumberland.

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