PART 3Arrangements

Pregnancy losses: general

85Duty to keep register

(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.