Section 10 Publication of certificate and inquisition.
United Kingdom
Every certificate and declaration and the duplicate of the inquisition required by this Act shall in each case be sent with all convenient speed by the sheriff to one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State; and printed copies of the same several instruments shall as soon as possible be exhibited and shall for twenty-four hours at least be kept exhibited on or near the principal entrance of the prison within which judgment of death is executed.
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed, except as applied by any other enactment, by Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 (c. 71), s. 3, Sch.; and Act repealed in so far as still in force (9.11.1998) by virtue of Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42), ss. 21(5), 22(2) (with ss. 7(8), 22(5))