153. A coroner may admit in proof a medical report, an expertise, or an official police report in lieu of the testimony of the physician, expert or peace officer who prepared it unless an interested person, the Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions or the advocate representing the Attorney General proves to the coroner the relevance, for the purposes of the inquest, of examining the author of such report or expertise.
1983, c. 41, s. 153; 2005, c. 34, s. 72.