Part 1: Main Provisions Section 32: Deaths in custody from natural illness: Northern Ireland
This section enables a coroner to hold (or continue to hold) an inquest into a death in prison from natural illness without a jury. The section achieves this by providing that a coroner need not comply with the requirements set out under section 39 of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, and under section 18(1) of the Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 which require an inquest into a death in prison to be held with a jury.
	Inquests can still be heard with a jury if a coroner considers this desirable.
	Section 13 of the Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 enables one inquest to be held into a number of deaths resulting from the same circumstances. The section modifies this provision to enable one inquest without a jury to be held into a number of deaths in prison from natural illness.
	The territorial extent and application of this section is Northern Ireland only.