Section 22: Registrar to issue certificate of burial

Upon registering a death or receiving information of the birth of any child as a still-born, the registrar shall issue a certificate in the form prescribed for the burial of the body:
Provided that a registrar shall not, without the written authority of a coroner, issue such certificate in any of the following cases if-(a) it appears to the registrar that there is reason to believe that the deceased died either a violent or unnatural death or died suddenly from a cause unknown or whilst confined in a lunatic asylum or in prison;
(b) the registrar considers that the circumstances connected with the death require investigation; or
(c) he is informed that a report concerning the death in question has been or is about to be made to the coroner.