Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011
Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 (2011 asp 11)
- Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 (2011 asp 11)
- Medical reviewers
- 1 Medical reviewers
- Referral of medical certificates of cause of death for review
- 2 Referral of certain medical certificates of cause of death for review
- 3 Medical reviewer requests
- 4 Application for review of certificate by interested person
- 5 Stay of registration of death pending review
- 6 Request for review not to stay registration
- 7 Medical reviewer to determine whether review to stay registration
- Review of medical certificates of cause of death
- 8 Review of medical certificates of cause of death
- 9 Action following satisfactory review
- 10 Action following unsatisfactory review: medical reviewer
- 11 Action following unsatisfactory review: senior medical reviewer
- 12 Action where relevant medical practitioner is unavailable or incapacitated
- 13 Duty to inform following review
- Powers of medical reviewers
- 14 Power to require documents
- 15 Documents: offences
- Duty to report suspicions of criminality
- 16 Involvement of procurator fiscal
- Deaths outwith the United Kingdom
- 17 Verification of foreign death certificates
- 18 Medical reviewers to authorise cremation or hydrolysis
- 19 Post-mortem examination of person who died outwith United Kingdom
- Other functions of medical reviewers
- 20 Training and information functions
- 21 Duty to co-operate
- 22 Guidance
- 23 Annual report
- Fees
- 24 Fees in respect of medical reviewer functions
- Disposal of bodies
- 25 Prohibition on disposal of body without authorisation
- 26 Certifying medical practitioner to provide additional information
- 27 Still-birth declarations
- General
- 28 Ancillary provision
- 29 Orders and regulations
- 30 Minor and consequential modifications
- 31 Interpretation
- 32 Short title and commencement
- SCHEDULE 1 STATUS AND APPOINTMENT OF MEDICAL REVIEWERS
- SCHEDULE 2 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL MODIFICATIONS
- Cremation Act 1902 (c. 8)
- Cremation Act 1952 (c. 31)
- Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c. 49)
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