{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/devon-coroners-order-1998/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/devon-coroners-order-1998/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/355",
  "legislation_title": "The Devon (Coroners) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/devon-coroners-order-1998",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any process issued, order made, direction given, inquest begun or other thing done by or to the coroner for an existing coroner’s district shall be deemed to have been issued, made, given, begun or done by or to the coroner for the relevant new coroner’s district.\n(2) All documents, exhibits, registers and other things in the custody of the coroner for an existing coroner’s district in connection with inquests or post-mortem investigations shall be transferred to the coroner for the relevant new coroner’s district.\n(3) In this article—\n(a) the coroner’s district constituted by article 2(1) above is the relevant new coroner’s district for the existing Plymouth and South West Devon Coroner’s District;\n(b) the coroner’s district constituted by article 3(1) above is the relevant new coroner’s district for the existing Torbay and South Devon Coroner’s District; and\n(c) “coroner” includes any deputy or assistant deputy coroner.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/355/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:37:25.837783+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."
}