PART 1

Main provisions

Registration of deaths and still-births etc

Modifications of requirements regarding medical certificates for cremations: Northern Ireland
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1
The Cremation (Belfast) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1961 (S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1961 No. 61) have effect with the following modifications.
2
Regulation 10 (conditions to be met for cremations) has effect as if for paragraph (a) there were substituted—
a
a certificate in Form B in the Schedule has been given by a registered medical practitioner who can certify definitely as to the cause of death; or
.
3
Regulation 12 (Medical Referee’s power to give certificates in Forms C and D) has effect as if the words “if he has personally investigated the cause of death to give a certificate in Form C, and” were omitted.
4
In regulation 13 (duties of the Medical Referee)—
a
paragraph (e) has effect as if the reference to “the medical certificates” did not include the confirmatory medical certificate (Form C);
b
paragraph (f) has effect as if—
i
the words “for which he had been seen and treated by a registered medical practitioner within twenty-eight days prior to his death” were omitted;
ii
the reference to “the certificates” did not include the confirmatory medical certificate (Form C).
5
Form A in the Schedule (application for cremation) has effect as if, at question 8(e), the words “for which he or she had been seen and treated by a registered medical practitioner within twenty-eight days prior to death” were omitted.
6
Form B in the Schedule (certificate by registered medical practitioner) has effect as if—
a
in the paragraph above question 1, the words “attended the deceased during his or her last illness and within twenty-eight days before death, and” were omitted;
b
in question 7, at the beginning there were inserted “If you saw the deceased alive,”;
c
in question 16(e), the words “for which he or she had been seen and treated by a registered medical practitioner within twenty-eight days prior to death” were omitted;
d
in the certification after question 20, the words “for which he had been seen and treated by me within twenty-eight days prior to death” were omitted;
e
in the Note at the end, for “the medical practitioner who is to give the confirmatory medical certificate on Form C” there were substituted “the Medical Referee”.
7
At the end of a period for which this section has effect, it continues to apply in relation to the cremation of the remains of a person who died during that period but whose remains have not been cremated unless, at the end of that period, a certificate in Form B in the Schedule to the Cremation (Belfast) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1961 has not been completed in relation to the deceased person for the purposes of regulation 10(a) of those Regulations.