{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-examiners-england-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-examiners-england-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/493",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Examiners (England) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-examiners-england-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Coroners and Justice Act 2009;\n“appointing body”, in relation to a medical examiner, means the English NHS body which appointed the medical examiner under section 18A of the Act;\n“attending practitioner” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Regulations 2024;\n“English NHS body” has the meaning set out in section 18A(4) of the Act (Medical Examiners: England);\n“National Medical Examiner” means the person appointed under section 21(1) of the Act;\n“other relevant medical practitioner” means a registered medical practitioner who, in relation to a death, is not a relevant attending practitioner, but has—\n(a) made a notification or referral to a senior coroner under any enactment;\n(b) sought advice from a medical examiner; or\n(c) sought to fulfil any function under the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Regulations 2024;\n“relevant attending practitioner” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Regulations 2024;\n“relevant function” means a function of a medical examiner under regulation 7 or the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Regulations 2024.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2024/492."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 18A was inserted by section 169(1) of the Health and Care Act 2022."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The definition of “registered medical practitioner” in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) was substituted by S.I. 2002/3135, Schedule 1, paragraph 10 to mean “a fully registered person within the meaning of the Medical Act 1983 who holds a licence to practise under that Act”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "For the meaning of “function”, see section 48(1) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/493/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:10.123634+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."
}