Schedules

Schedule 21Minor and consequential amendments

Part 1Coroners etc

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (c. 20)

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1

Section 18 (notice preliminary to information of death) is amended as follows.

2

For the words from the beginning to “that person's death” substitute “ If, before the expiration of five days from the relevant date, a qualified informant of a person's death ”.

3

For the words from “accompanied by a notice” to “the cause of death,” substitute “ accompanied by a confirmed attending practitioner's certificate, or a medical examiner's certificate issued in accordance with regulations under section 20 of the 2009 Act (medical certificate of cause of death), ”.

4

For “from the date aforesaid” substitute “ from the relevant date ”.

5

At the end of that section (which becomes subsection (1)) insert—

2

In this section, the expression “the relevant date” means—

a

the date on which the registrar is notified in accordance with regulations under section 20(1)(f)(i) or (h)(i) of the 2009 Act (confirmation or certification by medical examiner of cause of death); or

b

where an investigation under Part 1 of that Act into the death of the deceased person is discontinued under section 4 of that Act (cause of death F1becoming clear before inquest), the date of the discontinuance.