Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Act 2024
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Furnishing of corroborated particulars of death certificate to qualified informant by coroner | ||
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13. The Act of 2004 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 41: | ||
“Furnishing of corroborated particulars of death certificate to qualified informant by coroner | ||
41A. (1) Where a death has been referred to a coroner in pursuance of the Coroners Act 1962 and the coroner has not yet issued a certificate in relation to the death to a registrar under subsection (1) or (2)(a) of section 41, a qualified informant may request in writing that the coroner issue to him or her a corroborated particulars of death certificate and the coroner shall comply with that request. | ||
(2) Where a qualified informant gives a registrar a corroborated particulars of death certificate, the registrar shall enter in the register of deaths the particulars of the death stated in the certificate in such manner as an tArd-Chláraitheoir may direct. | ||
(3) Where there is an error in a certificate furnished to a qualified informant under subsection (1), the coroner shall give the qualified informant concerned a corrected corroborated particulars of death certificate and, where given the corrected certificate by a qualified informant, the registrar shall— | ||
(a) enter in the register the particulars of the death stated in the corrected certificate, or | ||
(b) where the error was entered in the register under subsection (2), correct the error. | ||
(4) In this section, ‘corroborated particulars of death certificate’ means a certificate issued to a qualified informant under subsection (1) containing such required particulars of the death to which it relates as can be corroborated by the coroner at the time it is issued.”. |