23. The Chief Coroner shall coordinate, distribute and supervise the work of the coroners who shall, in that respect, comply with his orders and directives.
The Chief Coroner may also, in particular after having certified a series of deaths that have occurred in similar circumstances, observed a new morbidity phenomenon, or identified within the population a situation involving avoidable mortality risks, issue a notice to better inform the authorities concerned and the population of the risk of death and of the measures that could be implemented to reduce it.
1983, c. 41, s. 23; 2020, c. 202020, c. 20, s. 111.