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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-amendment-rules-1999/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-amendment-rules-1999/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3325",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners (Amendment) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-amendment-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the principal Rules",
  "text": "In rule 2(1) of the principal Rules–\n(a) for the definitions of “the Act of 1887” and “the Act of 1926”, substitute\n““the 1988 Act” means the Coroners Act 1988”;\n(b) in the definition of “appropriate officer”, for “section 3A of the Act 1887”, substitute “section 9 of the 1988 Act”;\n(c) in the definition of “post-mortem examination”, for “section 21 of the Act of 1887 or under section 21(1) or 22(1) of the Act of 1926”, substitute “sections 19 to 21 of the 1988 Act”;\n(d) omit the definition of “the Registration Acts”; and\n(e) in the definition of “special examination”, for “section 22(1) of the Act of 1926”, substitute “section 20(4) of the 1988 Act”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3325/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:14.654730+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}