{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-medical-examiner-additional-functions-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-medical-examiner-additional-functions-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/494",
  "legislation_title": "The National Medical Examiner (Additional Functions) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-medical-examiner-additional-functions-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“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 given 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“section 19(4) Regulations” means—\n(a) in relation to medical examiners appointed by an English NHS body, the Medical Examiners (England) Regulations 2024;\n(b) in relation to medical examiners appointed by a Welsh NHS body, the Medical Examiners (Wales) Regulations 2024;\n“Welsh NHS body” has the meaning given in section 18B(3) of the Act (Medical Examiners: Wales).",
  "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 (c. 31)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2024/493."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2024/505 (W. 81)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 18B was inserted by section 169(1) of the Health and Care Act 2022."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/494/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:09.408257+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."
}