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6Inquiries into deaths occurring abroad: generalS
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(1)Subsection (3) applies to the death of a person if—
(a)the death occurred outwith the United Kingdom, and
(b)at the time of death, the person was ordinarily resident in Scotland.
(2)But that subsection does not apply to the death of a person within section 12(2) or (3) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (investigation in Scotland of deaths of service personnel abroad).
(3)An inquiry is to be held into a death to which this subsection applies if the Lord Advocate—
(a)considers that the death—
(i)was sudden, suspicious or unexplained, or
(ii)occurred in circumstances giving rise to serious public concern,
(b)considers that the circumstances of the death have not been sufficiently established in the course of an investigation in relation to the death,
(c)considers that there is a real prospect that those circumstances would be sufficiently established in an inquiry, and
(d)decides that it is in the public interest for an inquiry to be held into the circumstances of the death.
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