Civil Registration Act 2019
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Amendment of section 41 of Act of 2004 | ||
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6. Section 41 (amended by section 75 of the Health Act 2004 ) of the Act of 2004 is amended— | ||
(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2): | ||
“(2A) In preparing a certificate under subsection (1) or (2) the coroner, in so far as is practicable and appropriate— | ||
(a) shall inform a qualified informant of the coroner’s duty to submit the certificate of required particulars to the appropriate registrar, and | ||
(b) may seek any information or assistance, as he or she thinks necessary, from one or more qualified informants, for the purposes of the preparation of the certificate concerned.”, | ||
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(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4): | ||
“(4) In this section— | ||
‘appropriate registrar’ means a registrar in the registration area in which the body concerned is lying or was found; | ||
‘qualified informant’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 37.”. |