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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/certification-of-death-scotland-act-2011/section-16",
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  "legislation": "asp/2011/11",
  "legislation_title": "Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/certification-of-death-scotland-act-2011",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Involvement of procurator fiscal",
  "text": "(1) A medical reviewer (including the senior medical reviewer) must report any suspicion of criminality arising from the review of a medical certificate of cause of death (or a number of such reviews) to the procurator fiscal.\n(2) A medical reviewer (including the senior medical reviewer), having reported a suspicion under subsection (1), must follow the directions of the procurator fiscal as to the appropriate action to take.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 13.5.2015 by S.S.I. 2015/115, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/11/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:04.466697+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}