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Rh :(c) if it refers to any other document as an exhibit, it shall be accompanied by a copy of that document or by information that will enable the Coroner to inspect that document or a copy of it.

(3) Where a written statement made by any witness is admitted in evidence under this section in an inquiry (referred to in this Act as a conditioned statement), the Coroner may call the person to give evidence.

Reading over evidence and correction

34.—(1) The conditioned statement, if any, of a witness in an inquiry shall be read over to him.

(2) If the witness denies the correctness of any part of the conditioned statement, the Coroner may, instead of correcting the conditioned statement, make a memorandum on it of the objection made to it by the witness and shall add such remarks as the Coroner thinks necessary.

(3) If the witness does not understand English, the conditioned statement shall be interpreted for him into the language in which it was given or in a language which the witness understands.

Questioning of witnesses

35.—(1) Any properly interested person, and any other person who has the permission of the Coroner to do so, may examine a witness in person or by counsel.

(2) Where at any inquiry the report of the pathologist who has conducted or supervised a post-mortem examination of the body or the report of a person who has made a special examination under section 19(2)(b) is received in evidence, any person referred to in subsection (1) who desires to examine the maker of that report may require the Coroner to summon that person as a witness, and the Coroner shall do so.

Manner of recording evidence

36.—(1) The evidence given in any inquiry shall be recorded by the Coroner in writing or in any other suitable form of recording whereby the evidence can be reduced to a readable form.

(2) Evidence recorded in writing or, if it is not recorded in writing, the transcript of the evidence recorded, must be in English and signed by the Coroner, and shall form part of the record of the inquiry.