{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-rules-1984/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-rules-1984/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1984/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners Rules 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-rules-1984",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Preservation of material",
  "text": "A person making a post-mortem examination shall make provision, so far as possible, for the preservation of material which in his opinion bears upon the cause of death for such period as the coroner thinks fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced (by rules 9, 9A)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/420",
      "affecting_title": "The Coroners (Amendment) Rules 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/552/article/9",
    "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."
}