Civil Registration Act 2019

Amendment of section 41 of Act of 2004

6. Section 41 (amended by section 75 of the Health Act 2004 ) of the Act of 2004 is amended—

(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(2A) In preparing a certificate under subsection (1) or (2) the coroner, in so far as is practicable and appropriate—

(a) shall inform a qualified informant of the coroner’s duty to submit the certificate of required particulars to the appropriate registrar, and

(b) may seek any information or assistance, as he or she thinks necessary, from one or more qualified informants, for the purposes of the preparation of the certificate concerned.”,

and

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4):

“(4) In this section—

‘appropriate registrar’ means a registrar in the registration area in which the body concerned is lying or was found;

‘qualified informant’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 37.”.