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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/schedule-21/paragraph-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/schedule-21/paragraph-35.json",
  "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/35",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 273 (transmission of particulars of certain deaths on ships) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (a), for “or a post mortem examination” to the end substitute “ or subsection (2) below applies; and ”.\n(3) At the end of that section (which becomes subsection (1)) insert—\n“(2) This subsection applies where—\n(a) in England and Wales, an investigation under Part 1 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 into a person's death is discontinued under section 4 of that Act (cause of death revealed by post-mortem examination); or\n(b) in Northern Ireland, a preliminary investigation is made of a dead body as a result of which the coroner is satisfied that an inquest is unnecessary.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 21 para. 35 in force at 25.7.2013 by S.I. 2013/1869, art. 2(o)(xv)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/schedule/21/paragraph/35",
    "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."
}