# The Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (Amendment) Regulations 2024, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Regulations 2024/492 (“the MCCD Regulations 2024”).
Regulation 3 inserts a new provision into the MCCD Regulations 2024 which provides that the supply of any information under those Regulations does not breach any obligation of confidence. It also provides that those Regulations do not require or authorise the disclosure or use of information which would contravene data protection legislation.
Regulation 4 substitutes the MEC4 form contained in Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the MCCD Regulations 2024, to update the medical examiner’s declaration in order to correctly state the role of the medical examiner in relation to the death and to replace the field which states “name of deceased” with “name of child”.
Regulation 5 substitutes the MEC3 form contained in Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the MCCD Regulations 2024, to remove a redundant field and to update the medical examiner’s declaration in order to correctly state the role of the medical examiner in relation to the death.
Assessments of the impact the MCCD Regulations 2024 would have had on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector were prepared. These assessments apply equally to these Regulations and are available from https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/death-certification-reforms and https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-care-act-2022-combined-impact-assessments. Hard copies can be obtained by writing to the Department of Health and Social Care, 39 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0EU.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1064/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/medical-certificate-of-cause-of-death-amendment-regulations-2024/note
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