# The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968, Regulation 51: Registration upon reference to coroner


(1) Where a registrar is informed of the death of any person before the expiration of 12 months from the date of the death, he shall report the death to the coroner on a form provided by the Registrar General if the death is one—
(a) in respect of which the deceased was not attended during his last illness by a medical practitioner; or
(b) in respect of which the registrar has been unable to obtain a duly completed certificate of cause of death; or
(c) with respect to which it appears to the registrar, from the particulars contained in such a certificate or otherwise, that the deceased was seen by the certifying medical practitioner neither after death nor within 14 days before death; or
(d) the cause of which appears to be unknown; or
(e) which the registrar has reason to believe to have been unnatural or to have been caused by violence or neglect, or by abortion, or to have been attended by suspicious circumstances; or
(f) which appears to the registrar to have occurred during an operation or before recovery from the effect of an anaesthetic; or
(g) which appears to the registrar from the contents of any medical certificate to have been due to industrial disease or industrial poisoning.
(2) Where the registrar has reason to believe, with respect to any death of which he is informed or in respect of which a certificate of cause of death has been delivered to him, that the circumstances of the death were such that it is the duty of some person or authority other than himself to report the death to the coroner, he shall satisfy himself that it has been reported.
(3) The registrar shall not register any death which he has himself reported to the coroner, or which to his knowledge it is the duty of any other person or authority to report to the coroner, or which to his knowledge has been reported to the coroner, until he has received a coroner's certificate or a notification that the coroner does not intend to hold an inquest.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/2049/regulation/51 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-51
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