Right of accused person to examine medical practitioner who makes report

Where, at any inquest or inquiry, the report of any medical practitioner who has made a post mortem examination of the body of a person is received in evidence, and anyone charged with having caused the death of that person, or with 19 having been accessory thereto, desires to examine the medical practitioner, he may require the coroner to summon the practitioner, and the coroner, when so required, shall thereupon summon the practitioner as a witness for the Government.