Regulation 53 Procedure on coroner's notification of cause of death, when death already registered

Where a registrar receives a coroner's notification that he does not intend to hold an inquest in respect of a death which the registrar has already registered on the information of an informant, and the coroner certifies in that notification the cause of death as disclosed by any report on a post-mortem examination made by his direction, the registrar shall, without altering the entry of the death, enter in the margin of that entry the words “Post-mortem without inquest held by the direction of …” and the name and description of the coroner and the words “and cause of death disclosed as …” and the cause of death as certified by the coroner, and shall add his initials and the date.

If the register containing the entry is in the custody of the superintendent registrar, the registrar shall deliver the notification to the superintendent registrar, who shall enter in the margin of the entry the particulars required by paragraph (1) and add his initials and the date.