Summoning of witnesses and production of documents
30.—(1) A Coroner has and may 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 the Coroner.
(2) Every summons to appear, warrant of arrest or summons to produce must be in writing signed by the Coroner and must bear the seal of the court.
(3) Such summons to appear or summons to produce must ordinarily be served by a police officer, but the Coroner may, if he or she sees fit, direct it to be served by some other person.
(4) The provisions of section 38, Part 6 and section 235 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 apply, with the necessary modifications, in relation to summonses to appear, warrants of arrest and summonses to produce issued by a Coroner.