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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/presumption-of-death-act-2013/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/presumption-of-death-act-2013/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/13",
  "legislation_title": "Presumption of Death Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/presumption-of-death-act-2013",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Register of Presumed Deaths",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar General must maintain a register which is to be called the Register of Presumed Deaths.\n(2) The register must be maintained in the General Register Office.\n(3) The register may be maintained in any form the Registrar General considers appropriate.\n(4) Schedule 1 (further provision about Register of Presumed Deaths) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 partly in force; s. 15 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 22(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 15(1)-(3) in force at 1.10.2014 by S.I. 2014/1810, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 15(4) in force in so far as not already in force at 1.10.2014 by S.I. 2014/1810, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/13/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:24.742767+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."
}