{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/certification-of-death-scotland-act-2011/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/certification-of-death-scotland-act-2011/section-18.json",
  "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/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Medical reviewers to authorise cremation or hydrolysis",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where—\n(a) a person (“A”) died outwith the United Kingdom, and\n(b) it is intended that A be cremated or hydrolysed in Scotland.\n(2) A medical reviewer must, on an application by a person who wishes to arrange the cremation or hydrolysis of A, determine whether it is safe for A's body to be cremated or hydrolysed.\n(3) If the medical reviewer determines that it is safe for A's body to be cremated or hydrolysed, the medical reviewer must give the applicant a certificate authorising the cremation or hydrolysis.\n(4) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision about—\n(a) the form and content of applications under subsection (2),\n(b) the procedure to be followed by medical reviewers in relation to applications under subsection (2),\n(c) the form and content of the certificate authorising the cremation or hydrolysis to be given under subsection (3).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1)(a) substituted (22.7.2026) by Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Act 2026 (asp 13), ss. 20(3), 24(2); S.S.I. 2026/206, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1)(b) inserted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 6(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2) inserted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 6(b)(ii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2) inserted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 6(b)(ii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(3) inserted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 6(b)(iii)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(3) inserted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 6(b)(iii)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(4)(c) inserted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 6(b)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 18 heading substituted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 6(b)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18(1)-(3) in force at 13.5.2015 by S.S.I. 2015/115, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 18(4) in force at 25.3.2015 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2015/115, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 18(4) in force at 13.5.2015 in so far as not already in force 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/18",
    "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."
}