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CREMATION REGULATIONS 1999 (S.R. 1999, NO. 47) - REG 19

Confirmatory certificate

(1)  A medical practitioner is to issue a certificate confirming the cause of death of a deceased person.
(2)  A confirmatory certificate may be issued by any of the following medical practitioners:
(a) a medical referee;
(b) the Director of Public Health;
(c) a medical officer of health;
(d) a physician or surgeon at a public hospital.
(3)  A confirmatory certificate is to be in accordance with Form 3 .
(4)  A medical practitioner may not issue a confirmatory certificate if that practitioner is –
(a) a relative or partner of, or is an assistant to –
(i) the medical practitioner who issued the medical practitioner's certificate; or
(ii) the deceased person; or
(b) the same medical practitioner who issued the medical practitioner's certificate.



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