Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953

1953 (1 & 2 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 20

PART II

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS

23.--(1) Where an inquest is held on any dead body or touching any death the coroner shall send to the registrar, within five days after the finding of the inquest is given, a certificate under his hand giving information concerning the death and specifying the finding with respect to the particulars required to be registered concerning the death and with respect to the cause of death, and specifying the time and place at which the inquest was held.

(2) On receiving a certificate under the foregoing subsection the registrar shall in the prescribed form and manner register the death and the particulars as found at the inquest, and, if the death has been previously registered, the said particulars shall be entered in the prescribed manner without any alteration of the original entry.

(3) When a post-mortem examination is made of any dead body by virtue of section twenty-one of the Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1926, and as a result thereof the coroner is satisfied that an inquest is unnecessary, the coroner shall send to the registrar a certificate under his hand stating the cause of death as disclosed by the report of the person making the examination, and the registrar shall in the prescribed form and manner make an entry thereof in the register accordingly.