The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 45
Registrars of Births and Deaths only to give certificates in certain cases
Registrars of Births and Deaths only to give certificates in certain cases.
(4.) No Registrar of Births and Deaths shall give any one or more certificates of death for the payment in the whole of any sum of money exceeding six pounds on the death of a child under five years, or for the payment in the whole of a sum exceeding ten pounds on the death of a child under ten years; and no such certificate shall be granted unless the cause of death has been previously entered in the register of deaths on the certificate of a Coroner or of a registered medical practitioner who attended such deceased child during its last illness, or except upon the production of a certificate of the probable cause of death under the hand of a registered medical practitioner, or of other satisfactory evidence of the same.