Tasmanian Numbered Regulations

CREMATION REGULATIONS 1999 (S.R. 1999, NO. 47) - REG 19

19. Confirmatory certificate

      (1) A medical practitioner is to issue a certificate confirming the cause of death of a deceased person.

      (2) A confirmatory certificate may be issued by any of the following medical practitioners:

(a) a medical referee;

(b) the Director of Public Health;

(c) a medical officer of health;

(d) a physician or surgeon at a public hospital.

      (3) A confirmatory certificate is to be in accordance with Form 3.

      (4) A medical practitioner may not issue a confirmatory certificate if that practitioner is –

(a) a relative or partner of, or is an assistant to –

(i) the medical practitioner who issued the medical practitioner's certificate; or

(ii) the deceased person; or

(b) the same medical practitioner who issued the medical practitioner's certificate.