{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-act-northern-ireland-1959/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1959/15",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-act-northern-ireland-1959",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Authority for burial where inquest unnecessary.",
  "text": "(1) Where a coroner decides that an inquest is unnecessary he shall issue his authority to bury the body, and shall forthwith transmit to the registrar of deaths a statement setting forth briefly the result of the investigation and the grounds on which the authority was issued.\n(2) Such statement shall contain particulars of the cause of death sufficient to enable the registrar of deaths to register the death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1959/15/section/24",
    "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."
}