Transitional and transitory provision
3.—(1) This regulation applies to an inquiry applied for under section 1 or 1A of the 1976 Act on or after 1st December 2016.
(2) References to inquiry proceedings in section 13 of the 2016 Act include a reference to proceedings in respect of an inquiry under the 1976 Act.
(3) References to an inquiry in sections 13 and 14 of the 2016 Act include a reference to an inquiry under the 1976 Act.
(4) Section 1 of the 1976 Act (investigation of death and application for inquiry) is modified as follows—
(a)in subsection (1), the words “for the district with which the circumstances of the death appear to be most closely connected” are to be disregarded; and
(b)in subsection (3)(a), the words “with whose sheriffdom the circumstances of the death appear to be most closely connected” are to be disregarded.