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Rh :(f) any other application to be made for the inquiry.

(3) A pre-inquiry review and any application made to the Coroner at the pre-inquiry review may be heard by live video link, or by such other means as the State Coroner may approve.

Notice of inquiry

29.—(1) A Coroner who is to hold a pre-inquiry review or an inquiry may cause a notice to be served on any properly interested person.

(2) Any such notice shall state the date, time and place of the preinquiry review or inquiry and shall be served on any properly interested person within a reasonable period.

Summoning of witnesses and production of documents

30.—(1) A Coroner shall have and exercise all the powers of a Magistrate’s Court with regard to—
 * (a) summoning and compelling the attendance of witnesses and requiring them to give evidence; and
 * (b) the production of any document or thing,

at any inquiry held by him.

(2) Every summons to appear, warrant of arrest or summons to produce shall be in writing signed by the Coroner and shall bear the seal of the court.

(3) Such summons to appear or summons to produce shall ordinarily be served by a police officer, but the Coroner may, if he sees fit, direct it to be served by some other person.

(4) The provisions of section 38, Part VI and section 235 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 shall apply, with the necessary modifications, in relation to summonses to appear, warrants of arrest and summonses to produce issued by a Coroner.

Inquiries to be made public

31.—(1) An inquiry shall be held in open court, unless a Coroner is of the opinion that it is in the interests of justice, propriety, public order or public security, or there is other sufficient reason, that the public be excluded from the inquiry or any part of the inquiry.