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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-rules-1984/article-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-rules-1984/article-56.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners Rules 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-rules-1984",
  "path": "article/56",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Retention and delivery of documents",
  "text": "Any document (other than an exhibit at an inquest) in the possession of a coroner in connection with an inquest or post-mortem examination shall, unless a court otherwise directs, be retained by the coroner for at least fifteen years:\nProvided that the coroner may deliver any such document to any person who in the opinion of the coroner is a proper person to have possession of it.",
  "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/56",
    "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."
}