5(1)Regulations shall be made by the Registrar General by statutory instrument as to the issue of certificates for the purposes of this Schedule, and the regulations shall provide for securing that, except as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, more than one certificate for the purposes of this Schedule of the same death shall not be issued to the same person.
(2)The said regulations shall provide for the issue to a person to whom a certificate of a death for the purposes of this Schedule has been issued of a duplicate thereof in the event of the loss or destruction of the certificate which it replaces, subject to conditions for requiring—
(a)the making by that person of a statutory declaration stating that the certificate which the duplicate replaces has been lost or destroyed, and stating whether any indorsement had been made on that certificate, and, if so, by what society or company ;
(b)if it is so stated that an indorsement had been made on that certificate by any society or company, the recording on the duplicate of a requirement that it is to be produced to that society or company for having the indorsement repeated on the duplicate; and
(c)the surrender for destruction of the certificate which the duplicate replaces in the event of its being recovered.