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Information
by Coroner.

Coroner's

order and
Registrar's
certificate
Jor burial.

Ch. 29. No.1.) Births and Deaths Registration.

 

 

(2) Every person who registers or causes to be
registered any death in contravention of this section shall be
liable to a fine of ninety-six dollars.

29. (1) Where an inquest is held on any dead body, the
Coroner shall enquire of the particulars required to be
registered concerning the death, and the Coroner shall send
to the Registrar, within five days after his finding on such
inquest, a certificate under his hand giving information
concerning the death and specifying his finding with
respect to the said particulars, and to the cause of death,
and specifying the time and place at which the inquest was
held, and the Registrar shall, in the prescribed form and
manner, enter the death and particulars. If the death has
been previously registered, the said particulars shall be
entered in the prescribed manner without any alteration
of the original entry

(2) Where an inquest is held on any dead body, no
person shall, with respect to such dead body or death, be
liable to attend upon a requisition of a Registrar, or be
subject to any penalty for failing to give information in
pursuance of any other provision of this Ordinance.

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30. (1) A Coroner, upon holding an inquest upon any
body, may, if he thinks fit, by order under his hand,
authorise the body to be buried before registry of the death,
and shall give such order to the relative of the deceased or
or other person who causes the body to be buried, or to the
undertaker or other person having charge of the funeral;
and except upon holding an inquest, no order, warrant,
or other document for the burial of any body shall be
given by the Coroner.

(2) The Registrar, upon registering any death or upon
receiving a written notice of the occurrence of a death,
accompanied by a medical certificate as is before provided
bv this Ordinance, shall forthwith, or as soon after as he is
required, give, without fee or reward, either to the person
giving information concerning the death or sending the
notice, or to the undertaker or other person having charge
of the funeral of the deceased, a certificate under his hand