{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868-repealed/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868-repealed/section-5.json",
  "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  "legislation_title": "Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/capital-punishment-amendment-act-1868-repealed",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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Coroner’s inquest on body.",
  "text": "The coroner of the jurisdiction to which the prison belongs wherein judgment of death is executed on any offender shall within twenty-four hours after the execution hold an inquest on the body of the offender; and the jury at the inquest shall inquire into and ascertain the identity of the body, and whether judgment of death was duly executed on the offender; and the inquisition shall be in duplicate, and one of the originals shall be delivered to the sheriff . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Coroners Act 1887 (c. 71), s. 45, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5 applied with modifications by Army Act 1955 (c. 18), s. 128(1) and Air Force Act 1955 (c. 19), s. 128(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/24/section/5",
    "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."
}