Introduction
Summary of the Act
Commentary on Sections
Medical reviewers
Section 1: Medical reviewers
Referral of medical certificates of cause of death for review
Section 2: Referral of certain certificates of cause of death for review
Section 3: Medical reviewer requests
Section 4: Application for review of certificate by interested person
Section 5: Stay of registration of death pending review
Section 6: Request for review not to stay registration
Section 7: Medical reviewer to determine whether review to stay registration
Review of medical certificates of cause of death
Section 8: Review of medical certificates of cause of death
Section 9: Action following satisfactory review
Section 10: Action following unsatisfactory review: medical reviewer
Section 11: Action following unsatisfactory review: senior medical reviewer
Section 12: Action where relevant medical practitioner is unavailable or incapacitated
Section 13: Duty to inform following review
Powers of medical reviewers when conducting review
Section 14: Power to require documents
Section 15: Documents: offences
Duty to report suspicions of criminality
Section 16: Involvement of procurator fiscal
Deaths outwith Scotland
Section 17: Verification of foreign death certificates
Section 18: Medical reviewers to authorise cremation
Section 19: Post-mortem examination of person who died outwith United Kingdom
Other functions of medical reviewers
Section 20: Training and information functions
Section 21: Duty to co-operate
Section 22: Guidance
Section 23: Annual report
Fees
Section 24: Fees in respect of medical reviewer functions
Disposal of bodies
Section 25: Prohibition on disposal of body without authorisation
Section 26: Certifying medical practitioner to provide additional information
Section 27: Still-birth declarations
General
Sections 28-32
Schedule 1
Schedule 2
Parliamentary History