
1 
This Order may be cited as the Kent (Coroners' Districts) (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall be read as one with the Kent (Coroners' Districts) Order 1974.
2 

(1) This Order shall come into force on 15th April 1996.
(2) This Order shall not have effect in relation to any inquest begun before the day on which it comes into force or to any post-morten examination which, before that day, a coroner has directed or requested a medical practitioner to make.
3 

(1) The existing North Kent coroner’s district of the county of Kent shall be abolished.
(2) The existing West Kent coroner’s district, Maidstone coroner’s district and Canterbury and Dover coroner’s district shall be altered by transferring the areas specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order from the coroners' districts named in column 2 of the Schedule to the coroners' districts named in column 3 of the Schedule.
4 

(1) The existing West Kent coroner’s district shall be renamed as the North West Kent coroner’s district.
(2) The existing Maidstone coroner’s district shall be renamed as the Mid Kent and Medway coroner’s district.
(3) The existing Canterbury and Dover coroner’s district shall be renamed as the East Kent coroner’s district.
Michael Howard
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
27th February 1996
SCHEDULE


1. 2. 3.
Area now comprised in Coroner’s District named in Column 2 and to be transferred to Coroner’s District named in Column 3 Coroner’s District in which the area specified in Column 1 is now comprised Coroner’s District to which the area specified in Column 1 is to be transferred
The District of Dartford and the District of Gravesham North Kent District West Kent District
In the District of Tonbridge and Malling, the parishes of Wouldham, Burham, Aylesford, Snodland, Birling, East Malling and Larkfield, Ditton, Leybourne, Ryarsh, Trottiscliffe, Addington, Offham, West Malling, Mereworth, Wateringbury and East Peckham West Kent District Maidstone District
The City of Rochester Upon Medway, the District of Gillingham, and the District of Swale with the exception of Faversham and the parishes of Teynham, Lynsted, Doddington, Newnham, Norton and Buckland, Stone, Luddenham, Oare, Ospringe, Eastling, Stalisfield, Throwley, Sheldwich Badlesmere and Leaveland, Selling, Boughton Under Blean, Graveney with Goodnestone, Hernhill, Dunkirk North Kent District Maidstone District
In the District of Swale, Faversham and the parishes of Teynham, Lynsted, Doddington, Newnham, Norton and Buckland, Stone, Luddenham, Oare, Ospringe, Eastling, Stalisfield, Throwley, Sheldwich Badlesmere and Leaveland, Selling, Boughton under Blean, Graveney with Goodnestone, Hernhill, Dunkirk North Kent District Canterbury and Dover District