OHS Act Section 33

(1) The provisions of section 32 shall not affect the provisions of any law requiring and regulating inquests or other inquiries in case of death resulting from other than natural causes, and in respect of each incident referred to in that section in which or in consequence of which any person has died there shall be held, in addition to an inquiry under the said section, such inquest or inquiry as is required by any such law, but an inquiry under the said section and an inquest held by a judicial officer under the Inquests Act, 1959 (Act No. 58 of 1959), may be held jointly.

(2) At such a joint inquiry and inquest the judicial officer shall preside and thereupon the provisions of the Inquests Act, 1959, shall apply, but the inspector and the judicial officer shall each make the report required of them by section 32 (9) and that Act, respectively.

MHS Act section 74. Inquiry and inquest may be conducted jointly.

(1) An inquiry in terms of this Act into the death of a person may be held jointly with an inquest in terms of the Inquests Act, 1959 (Act No. 58 of 1959).

(2) The judicial officer contemplated in the Inquests Act, 1959 (Act No. 58 of 1959), must preside at a joint inquiry referred to in subsection (1) and the person instructed to hold the inquiry in terms of this Act must be deemed to be an assessor appointed in terms of the Inquests Act, 1959.

(3) The provisions of the Inquests Act, 1959 (Act No. 58 of 1959), apply to a joint inquiry.

(4) The assessor referred to in subsection (2) must -

(a) prepare a report contemplated in section 72(1)(b); and

(b) submit the report and the record of the joint inquiry to the Chief Inspector of Mines.