(1)Each health authority must prepare and maintain a register containing—
(a)prescribed information about the burial or cremation, in pursuance of sections 69 to 84, of the remains of a fetus, and
(b)other prescribed information.
(2)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations—
(a)require a register kept under this section to be in a specified form and kept in a specified manner, or
(b)make such other provision relating to such a register as they consider appropriate.
(3)A register kept under this section must be kept indefinitely.
(4)In this section—
“health authority” means a Health Board or an independent health care service,
“specified” means specified in the regulations.
(1)A health authority commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, the authority contravenes section 85(1) by failing to prepare or maintain a register as required under that section.
(2)A health authority which commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(3)In this section, “health authority” means a Health Board or an independent health care service.