{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-homes-registration-scotland-regulations-1990/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-homes-registration-scotland-regulations-1990/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1310",
  "legislation_title": "The Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nursing-homes-registration-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Notices concerning death",
  "text": "(1) Where a patient, or a child born in the nursing home to a patient, dies in the nursing home, the person registered shall send, or cause to be sent, to the Health Board a notice of such death not later than 24 hours after the death occurs.\n(2) Such notice shall state—\n(a) the name, address and date of birth of the deceased;\n(b) the date and hour of death;\n(c) the circumstances of death; and\n(d) to the best of the knowledge of the person registered, the cause of death.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), no account shall be taken of any part of a period of 24 hours which falls on a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, national or local public holiday, or Bank Holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.\n(4) Any notice given in accordance with this regulation to the Health Board shall be in writing, marked “In Confidence”, and be delivered by hand or sent by recorded delivery to the General Manager at the headquarters of the Health Board.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1310/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:18:28.560843+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."
}