22 Particulars of deaths to be registered.S
(1)For every registration district there shall be kept by the district registrar a register of deaths containing such particulars as may be prescribed, which particulars shall include the cause of death; and the prescribed particulars of the death of every person dying in Scotland shall, subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, be registered by the registrar in the register of deaths kept for the appropriate district, or, if there are two appropriate districts, in the register of deaths kept for either of them.
(2)In the foregoing subsection, and in the following provisions of this Part of this Act, “the registrar” in relation to the death of any person means the district registrar for the appropriate district, or, if there are two appropriate districts, the district registrar for either of them; and any reference in the following provisions of this Part of this Act to the register of deaths in relation to the death of any person shall be construed as a reference to the register in which the particulars of the death are, or may be, registered in pursuance of the said subsection.
(3)For the purposes of the foregoing subsections the appropriate districts in relation to the death of any person shall be—
(a)the registration district in which the death took place; and
(b)any other registration district in which the deceased was ordinarily resident immediately before his death; and
(c)in a case where the body of a dead person is found and the place in which the death took place is unknown, either the registration district in which the body was found or any other registration district which is appropriate by virtue of the preceding paragraph.
(4)Where a person dies (whether within or out of Scotland) in a ship, aircraft or land vehicle during the course of a journey, and the body of that person is brought by such ship, aircraft or land vehicle to any place in Scotland, the death shall, unless the Registrar General otherwise directs, be deemed for the purposes of the last foregoing subsection to have occurred at that place.