Article 27 Informant's duty where coroner issues statement or certificate
Where a registrar receives—
(a)
a statement under section 24 of the Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 from a coroner on the result of his investigation of any death; or
(b)
a certificate under section 28 of the said Act of 1959 from a coroner stating the cause of death of any person as disclosed by a post-mortem examination;
the registrar shall register the death in pursuance of information given to him by a qualified informant and not in pursuance of the statement or certificate, but he shall enter in the register the cause of death as given in the statement or certificate.
Notes on the whole Order
Textual amendments
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functions transf. SR 1993/494