Local inspection and examination of injured person

(1) It shall be the duty of the examining magistrate to make or cause to be made any local inspection the circumstances of the case require and, in any case of serious injury to the person, to cause the body of the person injured to be examined by a duly qualified medical practitioner, if one can be had and, if not, then by the most competent person that can be obtained, and the deposition of the medical practitioner or other person shall afterwards, if necessary, be taken. (2) Every medical practitioner or other person mentioned in sub-section (1) who refuses or neglects, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any order or direction of an examining magistrate given under this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.