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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-rules-1984/article-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-rules-1984/article-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners Rules 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-rules-1984",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Request by Director of Public Prosecutions for adjournment",
  "text": "(1) If the Director of Public Prosecutions requests a coroner to adjourn an inquest on the ground that a person may be charged with an offence (whether or not involving the death of a person other than the deceased) committed in circumstances connected with the death of the deceased, not being an offence within Rule 26(3), the coroner shall adjourn the inquest for twenty-eight days or for such longer period as he may think fit.\n(2) At any time before the date fixed for the holding of the adjourned inquest, the Director of Public Prosecutions may ask the coroner for a further adjournment and the coroner may comply with his request.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/552/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:42:28.673936+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."
}