{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-16B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-16B.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1959/15",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-act-northern-ireland-1959",
  "path": "section/16B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16B",
  "heading": "Death resulting directly from the Troubles: prohibition of new inquest",
  "text": "On and after the day on which section 44 of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 comes into force—\n(a) a coroner must not decide to hold an inquest into any death that resulted directly from the Troubles, and\n(b) the Attorney General or Advocate General for Northern Ireland must not give a direction under section 14 for the conduct of an inquest into any death that resulted directly from the Troubles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 16A-16C inserted (1.5.2024) by Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 (c. 41), ss. 44(1), 63(3) (with s. 61)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1959/15/section/16B",
    "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."
}