Part 1: Main Provisions Section 31: Suspension of requirement to hold inquest with jury: Northern Ireland
Section 18(1)(c) of the Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 requires an inquest into a death caused by a notifiable disease (a disease, notice of which is required under any enactment to be given to a government department, or to any inspector or other officer of a government department) to be held with a jury. Section 31 provides that COVID-19 is not a notifiable disease for the purposes of Section 18, removing the requirement for an inquest to be held with a jury where the death is from COVID-19.
	The territorial extent and application of this section is Northern Ireland only.