
1 
This Order may be cited as the Coroners' Districts (Wales) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.
2 

(1) Coroners' districts in the Counties of Clwyd, Gwent, Gwynedd, Mid Glamorgan, Powys, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan, as those counties existed immediately before 1st April 1996, shall be amalgamated and altered so that the areas of those districts are divided into the coroners' districts, for which the alternative names in English and Welsh are given where applicable, set out in column (1) of Schedule 1 to this Order and each such district shall comprise the area specified in respect thereof in column (2) of that Schedule.
(2) The areas described in column (2) of that Schedule are local government areas in Wales as they exist on 1st April 1996 by virtue of the amendments made by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.
3 

(1) On 1st April 1996, any process issued, order made, direction given, inquest begun or other thing done by or to the coroner for an existing coroner’s district shall be deemed to have been issued, made, given, begun or done by or to the coroner for the relevant new coroner’s district.
(2) All documents, exhibits, registers and other things in the custody of the coroner for an existing coroner’s district in connection with inquests or post-mortem investigations shall be transferred to the coroner for the relevant new coroner’s district.
(3) In this article, the relevant new coroner’s district in relation to an existing coroner’s district is the new district, for which the alternative names in English and Welsh are given where applicable, specified in column (2) of Schedule 2 to this Order opposite the name of the existing district (or districts) in column (1) of that Schedule.
(4) In this article “coroner” includes any deputy coroner or assistant deputy coroner.
(5) This article is without prejudice to paragraph 23 of Schedule 17 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (transitional provisions: coroners).
Tom Sackville
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Home Office
7th March 1996
SCHEDULE 1
Article 2


Column (1) Column (2)
Coroners' districts Area comprised therein
Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys/Pen-y-bont a Chymoedd Morgannwg The County Boroughs of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
Cardiff and The Vale of Glamorgan/Caerdydd a Bro Morgannwg The County of Cardiff and the County Borough of the Vale of Glamorgan
Central North Wales/Canol Gogledd Cymru The County of Denbighshire and the County Borough of Aberconwy and Colwyn
Gwent The County of Monmouthshire, the County Boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen
Neath and Port Talbot/Castell-nedd a Phort Talbot The County Borough of Neath and Port Talbot
North East Wales/Gogledd Dwyrain Cymru The County of Flintshire and the County Borough of Wrexham
North West Wales/Gogledd Gorllewin Cymru The Counties of Anglesey and Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire
Powys The County of Powys
Swansea/Abertawe The County of Swansea
SCHEDULE 2
Article 3


Column (1) Column (2)
Existing coroner’s district Relevant new coroner’s district
Mid Glamorgan Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys/Pen-y-bont a Chymoedd Morgannwg
South Glamorgan Cardiff and The Vale of Glamorgan/Caerdydd a Bro Morgannwg
Gwynedd Eryri and Clwyd West Central North Wales/Canol Gogledd Cymru
Gwent Gwent
West Glamorgan Neath and Port Talbot/Castell-nedd a Phort Talbot
Clwyd East and Clwyd South North East Wales/Gogledd Dwyrain Cymru
Gwynedd Llŷn ac Eifionydd, Gwynedd Meirionydd and Gwynedd Ynys Môn North West Wales/Gogledd Gorllewin Cymru
Powys Powys
Swansea and Gower Swansea/Abertawe