Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011
Medical reviewers
1Medical reviewers
Referral of medical certificates of cause of death for review
2Referral of certain medical certificates of cause of death for review
3Medical reviewer requests
4Application for review of certificate by interested person
5Stay of registration of death pending review
6Request for review not to stay registration
7Medical reviewer to determine whether review to stay registration
Review of medical certificates of cause of death
8Review of medical certificates of cause of death
9Action following satisfactory review
10Action following unsatisfactory review: medical reviewer
11Action following unsatisfactory review: senior medical reviewer
12Action where relevant medical practitioner is unavailable or incapacitated
13Duty to inform following review
Powers of medical reviewers
14Power to require documents
15Documents: offences
Duty to report suspicions of criminality
16Involvement of procurator fiscal
Deaths outwith Scotland
17Verification of foreign death certificates
18Medical reviewers to authorise cremation
19Post-mortem examination of person who died outwith United Kingdom
Other functions of medical reviewers
20Training and information functions
21Duty to co-operate
22Guidance
23Annual report
Fees
24Fees in respect of medical reviewer functions
Disposal of bodies
25Prohibition on disposal of body without authorisation
26Certifying medical practitioner to provide additional information
27Still-birth declarations
General
28Ancillary provision
29Orders and regulations
30Minor and consequential modifications
31Interpretation
32Short title and commencement
SCHEDULE 1STATUS AND APPOINTMENT OF MEDICAL REVIEWERS
1Schedule 5A to the 1978 Act (Healthcare Improvement Scotland) is...
2After paragraph 7 insert— Medical reviewers (1) HIS must appoint persons employed under paragraph 7(5) to...
3In paragraph 11 (delegation of functions)— (a) in sub-paragraph (1),...
SCHEDULE 2MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL MODIFICATIONS
Cremation Act 1902 (c. 8)
1(1) The Cremation Act 1902 is amended as follows.
Cremation Act 1952 (c. 31)
2In section 2(2) of the Cremation Act 1952 (procedure for...
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c. 49)
3Section 21(5) of the 1965 Act (person having charge of...
4In section 24 of the 1965 Act (certificate of cause...
5Section 27(2) and (3) of the 1965 Act (transmission of...
6In section 56(1) of the 1965 Act (interpretation)—

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Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011

2011 asp 11

An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about the certification of death and still-birth certificates; to make provision for medical reviewers, the senior medical reviewer and their functions; and for connected purposes.