PART 3Relevant Review Partners

Relevant review partners

5

This Part applies for the purposes of section 25 of the Act to identify which review partners are to be to the relevant review partners9 in respect of a person’s death, or where more than one person dies in the same incident in respect of all the deaths.

6

1

This regulation applies where the location or likely location of the death is known and is in a pilot area.

2

The relevant review partners are the review partners listed in regulation 9 in whose area the death occurred or is likely to have occurred.

7

1

This regulation applies where one person dies, the location or likely location of the death is not known and either—

a

the body of the person who died was recorded to be found in a pilot area,

b

part of the body of the person who died was recorded to be found in a pilot area, or

c

part of the body was recorded as found first in a pilot area, where parts were found in more than one area.

2

The relevant review partners are the review partners listed in regulation 9 in whose area either—

a

the body of the person who died was recorded to be found,

b

a part of the body of the person who died was recorded to be found, or

c

part of the body was recorded as found first, where parts were found in more than one area.

8

1

This regulation applies where more than one person dies in the same incident, the location of the deaths is not known, or there is more than one location, and either—

a

a body of a person who died was recorded as found first in a pilot area; or

b

part of a body of a person who died was recorded as found first in a pilot area.

2

The relevant review partners are the review partners listed in regulation 9 in whose area a body of a person who died, or a part of a body of a person who died, was recorded as found first.

9

The review partners for the purposes of regulations 6 to 8 are—

a

the chief officer of police for a police area,

b

the local authority, and

c

the integrated care board or, in Wales, the local health board.

Power to specify relevant review partner10

1

If regulations 6 to 9 do not apply, the Secretary of State may give a direction specifying which review partners are the relevant review partners in respect of a person’s death.

2

The Secretary of State may withdraw or amend a direction given under paragraph (1).