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6.—(1) The Secretary of State must appoint a medical referee for each cremation authority.
(2) The Secretary of State must appoint as many deputy medical referees for each cremation authority as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate.
7.—(1) To be eligible for appointment as a medical referee or a deputy medical referee, a person must be a registered medical practitioner of at least five years’ standing.
(2) The Secretary of State must appoint as medical referee and deputy medical referee such persons as may be nominated by the cremation authority who have the character, experience and qualifications to discharge the duties required by these Regulations.
8. The Secretary of State may issue guidance about the character, experience and qualifications that a person appointed as a medical referee or a deputy medical referee is expected to have.
9. The Secretary of State may remove a medical referee or a deputy medical referee from office for incapacity or misbehaviour.
10.—(1) The functions of the medical referee for a cremation authority may—
(a)be performed by a deputy medical referee for the cremation authority—
(i)during any period when the medical referee is absent or unavailable;
(ii)in any case in which the medical referee has been the usual medical attendant of the deceased person in relation to whom an application for cremation has been made;
(iii)during any vacancy in the office of medical referee; or
(iv)in any other case, with the consent of the medical referee; and
(b)be performed by a medical referee or a deputy medical referee for any other cremation authority in an emergency.
(2) Accordingly, a reference in these Regulations to a medical referee is to be read, where relevant, as including a deputy medical referee.
11. A medical referee must give such reports to the Secretary of State as the Secretary of State may from time to time require.
12. A medical referee—
(a)who has investigated the cause of death of a deceased person, may issue a confirmatory medical certificate in an emergency;
(b)who has made a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased person under regulation 24(2), may issue a certificate under regulation 24(3); and
(c)who is a coroner, may issue a certificate under regulation 16(1)(c)(ii).
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