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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/schedule-21/paragraph-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/25",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 23A (giving of information concerning a death to a person other than the registrar) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2), for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—\n“(a) if —\n(i) there has been no investigation under Part 1 of the 2009 Act into the death, or\n(ii) such an investigation has been discontinued under section 4 of the 2009 Act (cause of death becoming clear before inquest) other than as mentioned in paragraph (b),\na copy of a confirmed attending practitioner's certificate, or of a medical examiner's certificate, given to the registrar in accordance with regulations under section 20 of the 2009 Act (medical certificate of cause of death); and\n(b) if an investigation into the death has been discontinued under section 4 of that Act by reason of an examination under section 14 of that Act (post-mortem examinations), a copy of a certificate from the senior coroner stating the cause of death as disclosed by the report of the person making the examination;”.\n(3) In subsection (5), after “a relative” insert “ or the partner ”.\n(4) Omit subsection (6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 21 para. 16(2) substituted (28.6.2022) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), ss. 39(6)(c), 51(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 16(1) in force at 16.4.2024 for specified purposes by S.I. 2024/516, art. 2(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 16(1) in force at 9.9.2024 for specified purposes by S.I. 2024/516, art. 3(h)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 16(3)(4) in force at 16.4.2024 for specified purposes by S.I. 2024/516, art. 2(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 16(3)(4) in force at 9.9.2024 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2024/516, art. 3(h)(i)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:44.377194+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."
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