[24A Duty to refer certain certificates of cause of death for review]
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (1965 c 49) | Legislation

[24A  Duty to refer certain certificates of cause of death for review]

[(1)     The Registrar General must ensure that randomly selected certificates of cause of death are referred for review under section 8(1) of the 2011 Act prior to registration of the death to which each certificate relates.

(2)     The Registrar General must ensure that certificates of cause of death of such descriptions as may be specified in a request by medical reviewers under section 3 of the 2011 Act are referred for review under section 8(1) of that Act.

(3)     A district registrar for a registration district may refer for review under section 8(1) of that Act a certificate of cause of death where the district registrar considers it appropriate to do so.

(4)     The following certificates may not be referred under subsections (1) to (3)—

(a)     a certificate of cause of death relating to a body in respect of which

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