Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976

Informant's duty where coroner issues statement or certificateN.I.

27.  Where a registrar receives—

(a)a statement under section 24 of the Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 from a coroner on the result of his investigation of any death; or

(b)a certificate under section 28 of the said Act of 1959 from a coroner stating the cause of death of any person as disclosed by a post-mortem examination;

the registrar shall register the death in pursuance of information given to him by a qualified informant and not in pursuance of the statement or certificate, but he shall enter in the register the cause of death as given in the statement or certificate.