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The Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 (Application for Review) Regulations 2015

S.S.I. 2015/163 · Made 2 April 2015

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Registration Of Births, Deaths And Marriages Etc.

Made 2nd April 2015

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 2nd April 2015

Coming into force 13th May 2015

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4(8) of the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

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Footnotes

f1

2011 asp 11.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Form and content of application under section 4(1) of the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011
  3. 3Rejected applications
  4. Signature
  5. Schedule FORM
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 (Application for Review) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 13th May 2015.

2Form and content of application under section 4(1) of the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011

An application under section 4(1) of the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 must be—

(a)

in the Form set out in the Schedule and contain the information and documents specified in that form;

(b)

submitted to Healthcare Improvement Scotlandf1; and

(c)

accompanied by the medical certificate of cause of death.

3Rejected applications

Where an application is rejected because the medical certificate of cause of death is not eligible or because the application is incomplete, the medical reviewer must tell the applicant in what respect the certificate is not eligible or the application is incomplete.

Signature

MAUREEN WATT

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

2nd April 2015

FORM

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make provision to give effect on 13th May 2015 section 4(8) of the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 to provide for a review of a medical certificate of cause of death on the application of an interested party.

Regulation 2 specifies the form and content of an application.

Regulation 3 provides the information a medical reviewer must provide on rejection of an application.