{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/25",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Notification by medical practitioner to senior coroner",
  "text": "(1) The Lord Chancellor may 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.\n(2) Before making regulations under this section the Lord Chancellor must consult—\n(a) the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and\n(b) the Chief Coroner.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2)(a) inserted (11.4.2018) by The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/378), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 15(a) (with art. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 9.7.2019 by S.I. 2019/1105, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/section/18",
    "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."
}