C-68 - Coroners Act

Section 40 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

40. Subject to section 9 of the Deposit Act (chapter D-5), the coroner shall take charge of the effects found on the body of an unknown person which is the object of an investigation or an inquest, and he may return them to any person who shows to his satisfaction that he is entitled thereto.

If the effects so found have not been claimed within thirty days following the date when the investigation or inquest was completed, he must transmit a list thereof to the public curator who becomes exofficio provisional administrator of such effects.

1966-67, c. 19, s. 41; 1970, c. 17, s. 101; 1971, c. 81, s. 46.