{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/49",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Intimation of certain deaths by registrar to Procurator-Fiscal and vice-versa.",
  "text": "(1) Where in accordance with any instruction or direction given by the Registrar General under section 7(5) of this Act any particulars concerning a death have been communicated by a registrar to a procurator-fiscal—\n(a) if the procurator-fiscal obtains a precognition as to the death, and that precognition shows that the particulars so communicated appear to him to be correct and complete, the procurator-fiscal shall forthwith send a notice to that effect to the Registrar General;\n(b) if the procurator-fiscal obtains such a precognition and that precognition does not confirm that the said particulars are correct and complete, the procurator-fiscal shall forthwith send to the Registrar General a notice indicating the result of the precognition, and the Registrar General shall thereupon cause to be made such entry in the Register of Corrections Etc. as he thinks proper;\n(c) if the procurator-fiscal decides to obtain no such precognition, he shall send a notice of that decision to the Registrar General.\n(2) Where a procurator-fiscal receives, otherwise than from a registrar, information concerning any death which the registrar would, if he had knowledge thereof, be required to communicate to him, he shall send the registrar a notice containing the information.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/49/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:33.835387+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."
}