s.32Registrar’s certificate and order for burial
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Section 32Part 0 — Registration of Deaths

Registrar’s certificate and order for burial

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A Registrar, upon registering any death, or upon receiving such written notice of the occurrence of a death accompanied by a medical certificate as is before provided by this Act, shall forthwith give, without fee or reward, to the person giving information concerning the death or sending the notice, a certificate under that person’s hand in the prescribed form that that Registrar has registered or received notice of the death, as the case may be.
In the case of the death of any person in which a Coroner shall —
direct a medical practitioner to make a post mortem examination under the Coroners Act (2021 Revision) of the body of the deceased person and, upon the receipt of the report of such examination, authorise the burial of the body; or
decide, after investigation, that the circumstances of the death are not such as require the making of a post mortem examination under the Coroners Act (2021 Revision),
the said Coroner shall deliver to the person causing the body to be buried an order for burial in the prescribed form and notify the Registrar in writing within forty-eight hours that the order has been delivered to such person.
Every certificate of a Registrar and every order for burial issued under subsection (2) shall be delivered to the person effecting the burial of the body of the deceased person, and any person to whom such certificate is given by the Registrar who fails so to deliver or cause the same to be delivered is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of thirty dollars.
The body of a deceased person may not be buried before a certificate of the Registrar or an order for burial issued under subsection (2) has been delivered to the person effecting the burial —
in the case of burial in a burial ground, to the person who has control over or ordinarily buries bodies in such burial ground;
in the case of burial not in a burial ground, to the relative, friend or legal representative having charge of or being responsible for the burial; or
in the case of burial in a public cemetery, to the keeper of the cemetery:
Provided that a person effecting the burial may proceed with the burial if that person satisfies themselves by obtaining a written declaration in the prescribed form that a Registrar’s certificate or order for burial has been issued in respect of the deceased.
The person effecting the burial of the body of a deceased person shall, within ninety-six hours of the burial, deliver to the Registrar, in the prescribed manner, a notification as to the date and place of the burial.
Whoever effects the burial of the body of a deceased person in contravention of this section or fails to deliver to the Registrar a notification of the date and place of the burial, as required by this section, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of fifty dollars.

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