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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868-repealed/schedule/crossheading-certificate-of-surgeon",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/24",
  "legislation_title": "Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (repealed)",
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  "heading": "Certificate of Surgeon",
  "text": "I, A.B., the surgeon [or as the case may be] of the [describe prison]. hereby certify that I this day examined the body of C.D., on whom judgment of death was this day executed in the [describe same prison]; and that on that examination I found that the said C.D. was dead.\nDated this day of\n(Signed) A.B.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/24/schedule/crossheading/certificate-of-surgeon",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:58:24.165841+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."
}