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The Coroners Act 1988 includes -
8.—(1) Where a coroner is informed that the body of a person ("the deceased" ) is lying within his district and there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased—
- (a) has died a violent or an unnatural death;
- (b) has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown; or
- (c) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act,
- then, whether the cause of death arose within his district or not, the coroner shall as soon as practicable hold an inquest into the death of the deceased either with or, subject to subsection (3) below, without a jury.
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29.—(1) The coroner of the Queen's household shall continue to be appointed by the Lord Steward for the time being of the Queen's household.
(2) The coroner of the Queen's household shall have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of inquests into the deaths of persons whose bodies are lying—
- (a) within the limits of any of the Queen's palaces; or
- (b) within the limits of any other house where Her Majesty is then residing.
- (3) The limits of any such palace or house shall be deemed to extend to any courts, gardens or other places within the curtilage of the palace or house but not further; and where a body is lying in any place beyond those limits, the coroner within whose district the body is lying, and not the coroner for the Queen's household, shall have jurisdiction to hold an inquest into the death.
(4) The jurors on an inquest held by the coroner of the Queen's household shall consist of officers of that household, to be returned by such officer of the Queen's household as may be directed to summon the jurors by the warrant of the coroner.
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