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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fatal-accidents-and-sudden-deaths-inquiry-scotland-act-1906/section-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Public inquiries.",
  "text": "In any case of sudden or suspicious death in Scotland, the Lord Advocate may, whenever it appears to him to be expedient in the public interest, direct that a public inquiry into such death and the circumstances thereof shall be held ; and the public inquiry so directed to be held shall take place according to the forms and procedure prescribed by the Fatal Accidents Inquiry (Scotland) Act, 1895, as altered by this Act.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/6/35/section/3",
    "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."
}