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BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1976 - SECT 25



25.(1) The Registrar General shall furnish to every registrar forms of
certificates of the cause of death for use by registered medical
practitioners, and every registrar shall furnish the forms free to any
registered medical practitioner residing or practising in his district.

(2) Where any person dies as a result of any natural illness for which he has
been treated by a registered medical practitioner within twenty-eight days
prior to the date of his death, that practitioner shall sign and give
forthwith to a qualified informant a certificate in the prescribed form
stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the cause of death, together
with such other particulars as may be prescribed.

(3) A registered medical practitioner shall not give an informant a
certificate under paragraph (2) if

(a)he or any other person has referred the death of the deceased person to the
coroner under section 7 or 8 of the Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 or he
intends so to refer the death; or

(b)he has reason to believe that the deceased person has died as the result of
an industrial disease of the lungs.

(4) An informant shall, within five days from the date on which he receives
it, deliver to the registrar a certificate given to him under paragraph (2),
and the registrar shall enter in the register the cause of death as stated in
the certificate.



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