The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 45
Certificates of death to be required
Certificates of death to be required.
(2.) No society or registered branch shall pay any sum of money upon the death of a member or other person whoso death is or ought to be entered in any register of deaths, except upon the production of a certificate of such death, under the hand of the Registrar of Births and Deaths or other person having the care of the register in which such death is or ought to be entered, or under the hand of a duly qualified medical practitioner, or other satisfactory proof of such death: Provided always that the foregoing provision shall not apply to deaths at sea.