Civil Registration Act 2004

Furnishing of particulars of death by a coroner to registrar.

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41.—(1) Where, in pursuance of the Coroners Act 1962, a coroner—

(a) holds an inquest,

(b) adjourns an inquest at which evidence of identification and medical evidence as to the cause of death has been given, or

(c) decides, as a result of a post-mortem examination, not to hold an inquest,

he or she shall give the appropriate registrar a certificate containing the required particulars of the death concerned and that registrar shall register the death in such manner as an tArd-Chláraitheoir may direct.

(2) Where a coroner inquires into the circumstances of a death without holding an inquest or causing a post-mortem examination to be made, he or she shall give the appropriate registrar a certificate containing the required particulars of the death and that registrar shall register the death in such manner as an tArd-Chláraitheoir may direct.

(3) Where there is an error in a certificate furnished under subsection (1) or (2) the coroner concerned may give a certificate correcting the error to the registrar concerned, and the registrar shall correct the error in the register.

(4) In this section “appropriate registrar” means a registrar in the F138[registration area] in which the body concerned is lying or was found.

Annotations

Amendments:

F138

Substituted (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), s. 75 and sch. 6 part 26 item 15, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.

F139

Inserted by Civil Registration Act 2019 (13/2019), s. 6(a), not commenced as of date of revision.

F140

Substituted by Civil Registration Act 2019 (13/2019), s. 6(b), not commenced as of date of revision.

Modifications (not altering text):

C13

Prospective affecting provision: subs. (2A) inserted and subs. (4) substituted by Civil Registration Act 2019 (13/2019), s. 6, not commenced as of date of revision.

F139[(2A) In preparing a certificate under subsection (1) or (2) the coroner, in so far as is practicable and appropriate

(a) shall inform a qualified informant of the coroners duty to submit the certificate of required particulars to the appropriate registrar, and

(b) may seek any information or assistance, as he or she thinks necessary, from one or more qualified informants, for the purposes of the preparation of the certificate concerned.]

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F140[(4) In this section

"appropriate registrar" means a registrar in the registration area in which the body concerned is lying or was found;

"qualified informant" has the meaning assigned to it by section 37.]