Valid from 13/05/2015

Review of medical certificates of cause of deathS

13Duty to inform following reviewS

(1)This section applies where a medical reviewer has conducted a review under section 8(1).

(2)The medical reviewer must, when a relevant requirement is first complied with in relation to the certificate to which the review relates, inform the persons mentioned in subsection (3) of the outcome of the review including, in particular, any changes made to the medical certificate of cause of death.

(3)The persons are—

(a)the person who gave information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death to the district registrar under section 23(1) of the 1965 Act,

(b)in the case of a review conducted by virtue of section 4, the interested person (unless that is the same person as mentioned in paragraph (a)).

(4)In subsection (2), “relevant requirement” means a requirement imposed by any of the following sections—

(a)section 9(2),

(b)section 10(3) or (5)(a),

(c)section 11(5), (7), (8) or (9),

(d)section 12(2) or (5).