{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inquiries-act-2005/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inquiries-act-2005/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/12",
  "legislation_title": "Inquiries Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inquiries-act-2005",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "No determination of liability",
  "text": "(1) An inquiry panel is not to rule on, and has no power to determine, any person's civil or criminal liability.\n(2) But an inquiry panel is not to be inhibited in the discharge of its functions by any likelihood of liability being inferred from facts that it determines or recommendations that it makes.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 2 modified (E.W.N.I.) (15.6.2017) by The Inquiries into Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths etc. (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/1142), arts. 1(2), 3; S.S.I. 2017/155, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/12/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:07:27.793798+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}