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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-investigations-regulations-2013/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1629",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-investigations-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Informing the deceased’s next of kin or personal representative",
  "text": "A coroner who is under a duty to investigate a death under section 1, must attempt to identify the deceased’s next of kin or personal representative and inform that person, if identified, of the coroner’s decision to begin an investigation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}