Coronavirus Act 2020

Effect of direction on existing reviews made by application under section 4(1) of the 2011 Act

4 (1) This paragraph applies to any review of a medical certificate of cause of death, other than one falling within paragraph 5—

(a) in respect of which an application was made under section 4(1) of the 2011 Act (other than one which has been rejected as vexatious under section 4(3) of that Act) prior to a direction being made under paragraph 2(2) of this Schedule, and

(b) which has not been completed at the time the direction is made.

(2) The medical reviewer or, as the case may be, senior medical reviewer must—

(a) pause the review until such time as the direction is revoked,

(b) notify the persons mentioned in section 13(3) of the 2011 Act of the pause, and

(c) notify the relevant registrar that the death may be registered (if it has not already been registered).