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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-practice-and-procedure-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/37",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners (Practice and Procedure) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-practice-and-procedure-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules.)\nThese Rules amend the Coroners (Practice and Procedure) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1963 to substitute a new Rule 9 which will allow a person suspected or charged with causing death to be compellable as a witness at the inquest into the death (this had been precluded under the previous Rule 9(2)). The new Rule 9 provides that a witness at an inquest may decline to answer any question tending to incriminate himself or his spouse.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/37/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:09:02.368154+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."
}