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title: Coroners (Access to Body of Dead Person) Amendment Bill

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# Coroners (Access to Body of Dead Person) Amendment Bill
Author: Hon Andrew Little (IRL figure)

### 1. Title
This Act is the Coroners (Access to Body of Dead Person) Amendment Act 2020.
### 2. Commencement 
This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.
### 3. Principal Act
This Act amends the Coroners Act 2006 (the principal Act).
### 4. Section 79 amended 
After section 26(2)(e), insert:
>* (ea) the ethnic origins, social attitudes or customs, or spiritual beliefs of the person who is or of a person who is suspected to be, the dead person, or of an immediate family member of that person, that customarily require viewing, touching, or remaining with or near the body (for example, the customary requirement that immediate family members be able to view, touch, or remain with or near the body according to tikanga Māori:

