{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-investigations-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-investigations-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1629",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-investigations-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“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“coroner” means—\n(a) a senior coroner, area coroner or assistant coroner;\n(b) the Chief Coroner when conducting an investigation under paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the 2009 Act; or\n(c) a judge, former judge or former coroner conducting an investigation under paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to the 2009 Act;\n“document” means any medium in which information of any description is recorded or stored;\n“enforcing authority” has the same meaning as in section 18(7) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\n“investigation” means an investigation into a death conducted under Part 1 of the 2009 Act;\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 sections and schedule provisions in these Regulations are references to provisions in the 2009 Act, unless a regulation specifically states otherwise.\n(3) A reference to a Form in these Regulations is a reference to a Form in the Schedule to these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 25.7.2013, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1974 c.37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1629/regulation/2",
    "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."
}