Summoning of witnesses and production of documents
30.—(1)  A Coroner shall have and exercise all the powers of a Magistrate’s Court with regard to —
(a)summoning and compelling the attendance of witnesses and requiring them to give evidence; and
(b)the production of any document or thing,
at any inquiry held by him.
(2)  Every summons to appear, warrant of arrest or summons to produce shall be in writing signed by the Coroner and shall bear the seal of the court.
(3)  Such summons to appear or summons to produce shall ordinarily be served by a police officer, but the Coroner may, if he sees fit, direct it to be served by some other person.
(4)  The provisions of section 38, Part VI and section 235 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68) shall apply, with the necessary modifications, in relation to summonses to appear, warrants of arrest and summonses to produce issued by a Coroner.
[CPC, s. 285]