{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-49.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2088",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/49",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Certificates and declaration for disposal",
  "text": "(1) A certificate for disposal shall be given by the relevant registrar on an approved form which, for the use of the person effecting the disposal, shall embody a form of notification of disposal in form 17.\n(2) A registrar may give a certificate for disposal before registration for the purpose of burial or cremation, in England and Wales, but only–\n(a) if the death is one which is not required to be reported to the coroner; or\n(b) if the death has been reported, unless the registrar has received a coroner’s certificate after inquest or a notification from a coroner that he does not intend to hold an inquest and the registrar is satisfied that a coroner’s order has not been issued authorising the disposal of the body.\n(3) The form of a declaration for the purpose of the proviso to section 1(1) of the 1926 Act (disposal by burial on declaration that certificate of registrar or order of coroner has been issued) shall be form 18.\n(4) Where a confirmed attending practitioner’s certificate, or a medical examiner certificate given to the registrar in accordance with regulations under section 20 of the 2009 Act, embodies medical device information in accordance with those regulations, the registrar shall furnish the medical device information to the person giving information concerning the death, together with the approved form given under paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 49(2) substituted (13.11.2006) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2827), regs. 1(1), 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 49(4) inserted (9.9.2024) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/885), regs. 1(2), 2(15) (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2024/904, arts. 1(2), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 49 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2088/regulation/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:16:18.930722+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."
}