{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-inquests-rules-2013/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-inquests-rules-2013/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1616",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners (Inquests) Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-inquests-rules-2013",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules—\n“the 2009 Act” means the Coroners and Justice Act 2009;\n“bank holiday” means a day designated as a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;\n“copy” means in relation to a document, anything on to which information recorded in the document has been copied, by whatever means and whether directly or indirectly;\n“coroner” means—\n(a) a senior coroner, area coroner or assistant coroner;\n(b) the Chief Coroner when conducting an inquest; or\n(c) a judge, former judge or former coroner conducting an inquest in accordance with Schedule 10 to the 2009 Act;\n“document” means any medium in which information of any description is recorded or stored;\n“working day” means a day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday, a bank holiday, Christmas Day or Good Friday.\n(2) All references to section and schedule provisions in these Rules are references to provisions in the 2009 Act, unless a rule specifically states otherwise.\n(3) Any reference to a Form in these Rules is a reference to a Form in the Schedule to these Rules.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 2 in force at 25.7.2013, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1616/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:49:15.352919+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."
}