Direction by Chief Justice for further investigation

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, where the coroner has closed the proceedings at an inquest or inquiry, and it appears to the Chief Justice that further investigation is necessary, he may require the coroner to re-open that inquest or inquiry and make further investigation, and thereupon the coroner shall have full power to re-open, and shall re-open it and make further investigation, and thereafter proceed in the same manner as if he had not closed those proceedings. (2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to any inquest or inquiry at which any verdict or finding of murder, manslaughter or infanticide has been returned against any person named therein.