THIS ACT WAS GAZETTED ON FRIDAY 6th MARCH 2020
AN ACT to establish the Coroner’s Office to conduct independent and impartial investigations into unnatural deaths in order to determine the circumstances of such deaths; to provide for the appointment and functions of the Coroner-General, Deputy Coroner-General and their staff; to repeal the Inquests Act [Chapter 7:07];
to amend the Burial and Cremation Act [Chapter 5:03]; to amend the Births and Deaths Registration Act [Chapter 5:02] and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
ENACTED by the Parliament and the President of Zimbabwe.
PART I
Preliminary
1 Short title and commencement
(1) This Act may be cited as the Coroner’s Office Act [Chapter 7:21].
(2) This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the President by notice in a statutory instrument.
2 Interpretation
(1) In this Act—
“body” in relation to the body of a deceased person, includes any part or remains of such body, but does not include any part of the body of a deceased person removed from his or her body during his or her lifetime.