{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-practice-and-procedure-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/32",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners (Practice and Procedure) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-practice-and-procedure-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2008",
  "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 so as to—\nsubstitute a new rule 19 to remove the need for a note of the evidence given by a witness at an inquest to be signed by the witness as well as the coroner;\nsubstitute a new paragraph (2) in rule 38 to give a coroner sole discretion to decide whether to furnish to a properly interested person a copy of any document put in evidence at an inquest; and\nsubstitute a new Form 5, which provides for the form of oath to be taken by a juror in a coroners’ court and removes the reference to our Sovereign Lady the Queen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/32/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:04.724832+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."
}