Cremation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1985
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1985/820 |
| Year | 1985 |
1985 No. 820 (S. 73)
CREMATION
The Cremation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 198522ndMay 1985
7thJune 1985
1stAugust 1985
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 7 of the Cremation Act 1902(a), and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby make the following regulations:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Cremation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 1st August 1985.
(2) In these regulations the expression "the principal regulations" means the Cremation (Scotland) Regulations 1935(b).
Amendment of the principal regulations
2. In regulation 8(a) of the principal regulations, there shall be inserted before the words "medical practitioner" where they last occur the word "registered".
3. After regulation 8 of the principal regulations there shall be inserted the following regulation:—
"8A.—(1) A confirmatory medical certificate in Form C in the Schedule hereto is not required to be given where—
(a) the death of the deceased occurred in a hospital and the deceased was an in-patient there; and
(b) a post-mortem examination has been made by a medical practitioner qualified as prescribed in regulation 8(a) to give a confirmatory medical certificate in Form C in the Schedule hereto; and
(c) the medical practitioner who gives the certificate in Form B in the Schedule hereto knows the results of that post-mortem examination before giving his certificate.
(2) In this regulation the term "hospital" means any institution for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from illness or mental disorder, any maternity home, and any institution for the reception and treatment of persons during convalescence.".
4. In Form B in the Schedule to the principal regulations (form of certificate of medical attendant)—
(a) after question number 8 there shall be inserted the following entry:—
(a) 1902 c.8; section 7 was amended by Schedule 11, Part V to the Finance Act 1949 (c.47), and by section 2 of the Cremation Act 1952 (c.31).
(b) S.R. & O. 1935/247, amended by S.I. 1952/1639, 1967/398.
"8A. If the deceased died in a hospital* at which he was an in-patient, has a post-mortem examination been made by a registered medical practitioner of not less than five years' standing who is neither a relative of the deceased nor a relative or partner of yours and are the results of that examination known to you?";
(b) in the Note at the end of...
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