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Explanatory note

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This Order brings into force section 18 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25).

Section 18 confers a power on the Lord Chancellor to make regulations requiring a registered medical practitioner, in prescribed cases or circumstances, to notify a senior coroner of a death of which the practitioner is aware.