11(1)In section 19 (registrar’s power to require information concerning death), subsection (1) is amended as follows.
(2)For the words from the beginning to “the registrar may” substitute—
“(A1)This section applies where, after the expiration of the relevant period from—
(a)the date on which the registrar is notified in accordance with regulations under section 20(1)(f)(i) or (h)(i) of the 2009 Act (confirmation or certification by medical examiner of cause of death), or
(b)where an investigation under Part 1 of that Act into a person’s death is discontinued under section 4 of that Act (cause of death revealed by post-mortem examination), the date of the discontinuance,
the death of that person has, owing to the default of the persons required to give information concerning it, not been registered.
(1)The registrar may”.
(3)For paragraph (ii) of the proviso substitute—
“(ii)an investigation under Part 1 of the 2009 Act is conducted into the death of the deceased person and has not been discontinued under section 4 of that Act”.