(1)  A medical referee may require a post-mortem examination to be held if that medical referee considers that the cause of death specified in the medical practitioner's certificate or confirmatory certificate indicates, having regard to all the circumstances, that death may have been due, directly or indirectly, to –

(a) poison; or

(b) violence; or

(c) an illegal operation; or

(d) privation; or

(e) neglect; or

(f) drowning; or

(g) suffocation; or

(h) burns; or

(i) any suspicious circumstances.

(2)  If a post-mortem examination is held and it fails to reveal a cause of death, or the need for a toxicological analysis is indicated, a medical referee is not to issue a permit authorising cremation of the remains of the deceased person until a certificate of burial has been issued by a coroner.

(3)  A medical referee, or a medical practitioner acting on the instructions of a medical referee, may conduct a post-mortem examination.