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NO. 14 OF 2010
- (a) view the body at the place where the body is lying or order the body to be removed to some more convenient place and view the body at that place;
- (b) require any medical practitioner or health-care practitioner to furnish, within such time as the forensic pathologist may specify—
- (i) a detailed report, to the best of the medical practitioner’s or health-care practitioner’s knowledge, on the medical treatment or care rendered to the deceased before that person’s death;
- (ii) such medical records or health-care records pertaining to the medical treatment or care of the deceased as the forensic pathologist may require; and
- (iii) any other information which the forensic pathologist considers necessary; and
- (c) request the Coroner to direct the police to provide such assistance as the forensic pathologist may require to investigate the cause of and circumstances connected with the death.
(2) Any medical practitioner or health-care practitioner who is required by a forensic pathologist under subsection (1)(b) to provide any information or records and who—
- (a) fails to provide such information or records;
- (b) provides any information or records which he knows or believes to be false or incomplete; or
- (c) tampers or destroys, or causes or permits the tampering or destruction of, any record pertaining to the medical treatment or care of the deceased,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
