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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-tissue-scotland-act-2006/section-27",
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  "legislation": "asp/2006/4",
  "legislation_title": "Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-tissue-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Requirements for carrying out post-mortem examination",
  "text": "A post-mortem examination may be carried out only if—\n(a) it is authorised in accordance with section 29, 30, 31, 32 or, as the case may be 33; and\n(b) the requirements of section 35 are satisfied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 in force at 1.9.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/251, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/4/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:16.778192+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."
}