{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/notification-of-deaths-regulations-2019/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/notification-of-deaths-regulations-2019/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1112",
  "legislation_title": "The Notification of Deaths Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/notification-of-deaths-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Notification of Deaths Regulations 2019 and come into force on 1st October 2019.\n(2) In these regulations—\n“attending practitioner”, in relation to a deceased person, means a registered medical practitioner who attended the deceased person before their death;\n“relevant senior coroner”, in relation to a death, means the senior coroner appointed for the coroner area in which the body of the deceased person lies.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 1(2) substituted (9.9.2024) by The Cremation, Coroners and Notification of Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/668), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(b) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 1 heading substituted (9.9.2024) by The Cremation, Coroners and Notification of Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/668), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(a) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.10.2019, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1112/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:46.844273+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."
}