28Post-mortem examination without inquest.N.I.
F1[(1)Where a coroner is satisfied that a post-mortem examination should be performed upon the body of a person into whose death he may conduct an inquest, the coroner may] secure the services of a registered medical practitioner on the list mentioned in section twenty-six for the performance of a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased, and for the purposes of the examination the coroner and the medical practitioner whose services have been thus secured shall have the like powers, authorities and immunities as if the examination were a post-mortem examination directed by the coroner at an inquest upon the body of the deceased.
(2)If as a result of such post-mortem examination as aforesaid the coroner is satisfied that an inquest is unnecessary, he shall send to the registrar of deaths whose duty it is by law to register the death a certificate under his hand stating the cause of death as disclosed by the report of the post-mortem examination …F2.