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Scottish Statutory Instruments
Public Health
Made
2nd April 2015
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
2nd April 2015
Coming into force
13th May 2015
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 (Authorisation of Cremation – Death Outwith Scotland) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 13th May 2015.
(2) In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011.
2. A certificate in the form of Form X set out in the Schedule is specified for the purpose of section 17(4) of the Act.
3. An application under section 18(2) of the Act must be in the form of Form Y set out in the Schedule and contain the information and documents specified in that form.
4. In determining an application under section 18(2) of the Act, that is to say whether it is safe to cremate a person’s body, the medical reviewer must follow the following procedure—
(a)determine whether there is a cardiac pacemaker or other potentially explosive device present in the body;
(b)determine whether the body poses a risk to public health in that it is, or immediately before death was, infected with a notifiable disease specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008(3); and
(c)determine whether there is any radioactive or other hazardous material or implant present in the body.
5. Where a medical reviewer determines that it is safe to cremate a body, the medical reviewer must issue a certificate to that effect in the form of Form Z set out in the Schedule.
MAUREEN WATT
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
2nd April 2015
Regulation 2
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make provision in respect of section 17(4) of the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 (“the Act”) to provide for a certificate confirming verification of foreign death certificates and under section 18(4) of the Act to provide for a determination by a medical reviewer as to whether it is safe to cremate the body of a deceased person who died outwith Scotland but for whom an application has been received to be cremated in Scotland.
Regulation 2 indicates the form of a certificate under section 17(4) of the Act.
Regulation 3 indicates the form and content of an application under section 18(4) of the Act.
Regulation 4 outlines the procedure to be followed by a medical reviewer in reaching a determination.
Regulation 5 provides for the issuing of a certificate by a medical reviewer stating that it is safe to cremate the body of a deceased person.
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