Section 292

If the Coroner is of opinion during the course or at the close of any inquiry that sufficient grounds are disclosed for charging any person under the Penal Code [Cap. 224] with having caused or assisted in causing the death of the deceased person, he may issue his warrant for the apprehension and committal of that person to prison to be brought before a court to be prosecuted according to law and he may bind over any witness who has been examined before him in a recognizance with or without surety to appear and give evidence before that court.

Every person who has been committed to prison as aforesaid may require and shall be entitled to copies of the depositions and of the statement, if any, of the accused person on payment of the like fees as are by law payable for copies of other depositions.

Where a person has been committed to prison by a Coroner, the Coroner, in any case in which a Magistrate’s Court has power to accept bail, may accept bail, if he thinks fit, with good and sufficient sureties for the appearance of the person so charged before a court; and thereupon that person, if in custody, shall be discharged therefrom. [291