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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868-repealed/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/24",
  "legislation_title": "Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868-repealed",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Certificate of death.",
  "text": "As soon as may be after judgment of death has been executed on the offender, the surgeon of the prison shall examine the body of the offender, and shall ascertain the fact of death, and shall sign a certificate thereof, and deliver the same to the sheriff.\nThe sheriff, and the gaoler and chaplain of the prison, and such justices and other persons present (if any) as the sheriff requires or allows, shall also sign a declaration to the effect that judgment of death has been executed on the offender.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/24/section/4",
    "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."
}