{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-27",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1976/1041",
  "legislation_title": "Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Informant's duty where coroner issues statement or certificate",
  "text": "Where a registrar receives—\n(a) a statement under section 24 of the Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 from a coroner on the result of his investigation of any death; or\n(b) a certificate under section 28 of the said Act of 1959 from a coroner stating the cause of death of any person as disclosed by a post-mortem examination;\nthe registrar shall register the death in pursuance of information given to him by a qualified informant and not in pursuance of the statement or certificate, but he shall enter in the register the cause of death as given in the statement or certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1041/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:49.962650+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}