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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-investigations-regulations-2013/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-investigations-regulations-2013/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1629",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-investigations-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Discontinuance of investigation where cause of death becomes clear before inquest",
  "text": "Where a coroner discontinues an investigation in accordance with section 4(1) because ... the cause of death becomes clear in the course of an investigation, the coroner must record the cause of death and notify the next of kin or personal representative of the deceased using Form 2.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 omitted (28.6.2022) by virtue of The Coroners (Investigations) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/612), regs. 1(1), 2(b) (with reg. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 inserted (28.6.2022) by The Coroners (Investigations) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/612), regs. 1(1), 2(c) (with reg. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 heading substituted (28.6.2022) by The Coroners (Investigations) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/612), regs. 1(1), 2(a) (with reg. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 25.7.2013, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1629/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:49:07.060257+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."
}