C27

Prospective affecting provision: section inserted by Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Act 2024 (27/2024), s. 13, not commenced as of date of revision.

F174[41A.—(1) Where a death has been referred to a coroner in pursuance of the Coroners Act 1962 and the coroner has not yet issued a certificate in relation to the death to a registrar under subsection (1) or (2)(a) of section 41, a qualified informant may request in writing that the coroner issue to him or her a corroborated particulars of death certificate and the coroner shall comply with that request.

(2) Where a qualified informant gives a registrar a corroborated particulars of death certificate, the registrar shall enter in the register of deaths the particulars of the death stated in the certificate in such manner as an tArd-Chláraitheoir may direct.

(3) Where there is an error in a certificate furnished to a qualified informant under subsection (1), the coroner shall give the qualified informant concerned a corrected corroborated particulars of death certificate and, where given the corrected certificate by a qualified informant, the registrar shall—

(a) enter in the register the particulars of the death stated in the corrected certificate, or

(b) where the error was entered in the register under subsection (2), correct the error.

(4) In this section, "corroborated particulars of death certificate" means a certificate issued to a qualified informant under subsection (1) containing such required particulars of the death to which it relates as can be corroborated by the coroner at the time it is issued.]