{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1959/15",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-act-northern-ireland-1959",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Inquest without exhuming body.",
  "text": "Where the body of any person upon whom it is necessary to hold an inquest has been buried and it is known to the coroner that no good purpose will be effected by exhuming the same for the purposes of an inquest he may proceed to hold an inquest without having exhumed the body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1959/15/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:11.088702+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."
}