{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/section-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/section-81.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/25",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009",
  "path": "section/81",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Delegation of functions",
  "text": "(1) A chief officer of police of a police force in England and Wales may authorise a person to exercise the chief officer's functions under this Chapter.\n(2) The Chief Constable of the British Transport Police Force may authorise a person to exercise the Chief Constable's functions under this Chapter.\n(3) The Director General of the National Crime Agency may authorise a person to exercise the Director General's functions under this Chapter.\n(4) The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland may authorise a person to exercise the Chief Constable's functions under this Chapter.\n(5) The Director of Public Prosecutions may authorise a person to exercise the Director's functions under this Chapter.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland may authorise a person to exercise the Director's functions under this Chapter.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 81(3) substituted (7.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 8 para. 187; S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 81(6) omitted (27.3.2014) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Merger of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/834), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 73"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 81 in force at 6.4.2010 for E.W. by S.I. 2010/816, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 81(3) in force at 2.5.2011 for N.I. by S.I. 2011/1122, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 81(4)(7) in force at 18.4.2011 for N.I. by S.R. 2011/182, art. 2(a)(viii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/section/81",
    "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."
}