[25B Registration of deaths]
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (1965 c 49) | Legislation

[25B  Registration of deaths]

[(1)     Subject to subsection (2) [and (2A)] below, the district registrar for a registration district shall register the particulars of a death where, in accordance with this Part of this Act, the registrar has an attested death registration form concerning the death.

(2)     The registrar is not to register a death in respect of which [information was given in a manner permitted by a direction under] section 23(1A)(b) [or (c)] of this Act unless the registrar is satisfied that the prescribed particulars of the death have been—

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