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- (a) endorse his record and the certificate required under section 42 accordingly; and
- (b) send a copy of the certificate referred to in section 42 each to the Public Prosecutor and the Commissioner of Police.
Change of Coroner
41. If a Coroner—
- (a) who has viewed a body or has authorised the release of the body is unable to hold the inquiry himself;
- (b) is at any time unable to complete the inquiry himself; or
- (c) is unable to re-open an inquiry previously concluded by himself when so directed by the Public Prosecutor under section 26(3),
another Coroner may hold, continue or re-open the inquiry, as the case may be, and may proceed as if he had viewed the body or recorded all the evidence at the inquiry himself.
Coroner’s certificate
42.—(1) Where an inquiry is held into the death of any person, the Coroner shall complete and sign a certificate setting out the cause of death as found at the inquiry and shall, within 48 hours after the conclusion of the inquiry, forward a copy of the certificate to—
- (a) the Registrar-General, together with such other particulars as are required by the Registrar-General for the purpose of registering the death under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act (Cap. 267); and
- (b) the Public Prosecutor.
(2) In any case where a reportable death has occurred in Singapore and the Coroner has decided not to hold an inquiry into the death under section 25(2), the Coroner shall, after considering the results of the investigations into the death—
- (a) complete and sign a certificate setting out the cause of death based on the evidence before him; and
- (b) within 48 hours after signing the certificate, forward a copy thereof to the Registrar-General and the Public Prosecutor in accordance with subsection (1).
