Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953
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23A Giving of information concerning a death to a person other than the registrar
(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, any person required by or under this Act to give information to the registrar of the particulars required to be registered concerning a death may give that information by making and signing in the presence of and delivering to such officer as may be prescribed a declaration in writing. (2) A declaration shall not be made under this section unless the officer in whose presence the declaration is to be made has in his possession— (a) if no post-mortem examination of the deceased person’s body is made by virtue of section 19 of the Coroners Act 1988 , a copy of the certificate delivered to the registrar under subsection (1) of section 22 of this Act; or (b) if a post-mortem examination of the deceased person’s body is so made, a copy of the certificate delivered to the registrar under subsection (3) of section 23 of this Act; and the registrar shall, if so requested by the officer in whose presence the declaration is to be made, supply to that officer a copy of the certificate mentioned in paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, paragraph (b) of this subsection. (3) The officer in whose presence a declaration is made under this section shall send the declaration to the registrar who shall in the prescribed manner enter the death in the register. (4) An entry made under the last foregoing subsection shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been signed by the person who signed the declaration and a person making a declaration under this section shall be deemed to have given information concerning the death to the registrar and to have complied with any requirement of the registrar made under this Act to attend and give that information. (5) Where the person by whom a declaration under this section is made is a relative or the partner of the deceased person, he shall be deemed, for the purposes of determining his qualification to give the information given by making the declaration, to be in the sub-district where the death occurred. (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
23A Giving of information concerning a death to a person other than the registrar
(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, any person required by or under this Act to give information to the registrar of the particulars required to be registered concerning a death may give that information by making and signing in the presence of and delivering to such officer as may be prescribed a declaration in writing. (2) A declaration shall not be made under this section unless the officer in whose presence the declaration is to be made has in his possession— (a) if no post-mortem examination of the deceased person’s body is made by virtue of section 19 of the Coroners Act 1988 , a copy of the certificate delivered to the registrar under subsection (1) of section 22 of this Act; or (b) if a post-mortem examination of the deceased person’s body is so made, a copy of the certificate delivered to the registrar under subsection (3) of section 23 of this Act; and the registrar shall, if so requested by the officer in whose presence the declaration is to be made, supply to that officer a copy of the certificate mentioned in paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, paragraph (b) of this subsection. (3) The officer in whose presence a declaration is made under this section shall send the declaration to the registrar who shall in the prescribed manner enter the death in the register. (4) An entry made under the last foregoing subsection shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been signed by the person who signed the declaration and a person making a declaration under this section shall be deemed to have given information concerning the death to the registrar and to have complied with any requirement of the registrar made under this Act to attend and give that information. (5) Where the person by whom a declaration under this section is made is a relative or the partner of the deceased person, he shall be deemed, for the purposes of determining his qualification to give the information given by making the declaration, to be in the sub-district where the death occurred. (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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