47 “Interested person”
Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (2009 c 25) | Legislation

Interpretation

47  “Interested person”

(1)     This section applies for the purposes of this Part.

(2)     “Interested person”, in relation to a deceased person or an investigation or inquest under this Part into a person's death, means—

(a)     a spouse, civil partner, partner, parent, child, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, child of a brother or sister, stepfather, stepmother, half-brother or half-sister;

(b)     a personal representative of the deceased;

(c)     a medical examiner exercising functions in relation to the death of the deceased;

(d)     a beneficiary under a policy of insurance issued on the life of the deceased;

(e)     the insurer who issued such a policy of insurance;

(f)     a person who may by any act or omission have caused or contributed to the death of the deceased, or whose employee or agent may have done so;

(g)     in a case where the death may have been caused by—

(i)     an injury received in the course of an employment, or

(ii)     a disease prescribed under section 108 of the Social Security Contributions

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