Regulation 52 Registration where inquest is not held
Where, before the expiration of 12 months from the date of a death which it is his duty to register, the registrar is notified by the coroner that he does not intend to hold an inquest thereon, the registrar shall, unless the death has already been registered, register the death in accordance with regulations 49 and 50:
Provided that—
if the coroner in his notification certifies the cause of death disclosed by any report on a post-mortem examination of the body made by his direction under section 21 of the Coroners (Amendment) Act 1926, the entry in space 8 of the cause of death shall be of the cause of death as so certified, followed by the words “Certified by …”, the name and description of the coroner and the words “after post-mortem without inquest”; and
if it appears from the coroner's notification that no post-mortem examination was held by his direction, and the registrar is unable to obtain delivery of a certificate of cause of death, the entry in space 8 of the cause of death shall be of the cause of death as stated in the coroner's notification, or if none is stated therein as stated to the registrar by the informant, without any further or other entry in that space.