{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fatal-accidents-and-sudden-deaths-inquiry-scotland-act-1906/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fatal-accidents-and-sudden-deaths-inquiry-scotland-act-1906/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/6/35",
  "legislation_title": "Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1906",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fatal-accidents-and-sudden-deaths-inquiry-scotland-act-1906",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Verdicts to be returned.",
  "text": "Subsection (7) of section four of the Fatal Accidents Inquiry (Scotland) Act, 1895, is hereby repealed, and, in lieu thereof, be it enacted that the jury, after hearing the evidence and the persons, if they so desire, appearing thereon, including any person duly authorised by any trades union or friendly society of which the deceased was a member, and the summing up by the sheriff, if he shall consider such summing up necessary or proper, shall return a verdict setting forth, so far as such particulars have been proved, when and where the accident and the death or deaths to which the inquiry relates took place, the cause or causes of such accident or death or deaths, the person or persons, if any, to whose fault or negligence the accident is attributable, the precautions, if any, by which it might have been avoided, any defects in the system or mode of working which contributed to the accident, and any other facts disclosed by the evidence which, in the opinion of the jury, are relevant to the inquiry.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/6/35/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:52.939116+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."
}