• Inquests Act, 1959 (Act No. 58 of 1959)
  • Act
  • 1. Definitions
  • 2. Duty to report deaths
  • 3. Investigation of circumstances of certain deaths
  • 4. Report to public prosecutor
  • 5. When inquest to be held
  • 6. Judicial officer who is to hold inquest
  • 6A. Multiple deaths which are connected
  • 7. Notice of inquest to be given
  • 8. Witnesses and evidence at inquests
  • 9. Assessors at inquests
  • 10. When inquest to be held in public
  • 11. Examiniation of witnesses
  • 12. Adjournment of inquest, and continuation by different judicial officer
  • 13. Admissibility of declarations and interrogatories
  • 14. Copies of records of inquiries
  • 15. Taking evidence on commission
  • 16. Finding
  • 17. Submission of record to attorney-general
  • 17A. Re-opening of inquest
  • 18. Certain findings on review equivalent to orders that death should be presumed
  • 19. Inquest records
  • 20. Offences in connection with inquests
  • 21. Inquest not to prevent 
  • 22. Regulations
  • 23. Savings
  • 24. Repeal of laws
  • 25. Repealed
  • 26. Short title and date of commencement