Section 22
Duty of medical practitioner as to certification
of Births and Deaths Registration Act 1957
(1)
Every registered medical practitioner, upon the death of any person who has during his last illness been attended by such medical practitioner, shall sign and deliver within seven days of the death to one of the persons required by this Act to furnish particulars of the death or to the Registrar a certificate in the prescribed form.
(2)
Such person shall, when furnishing particulars of the death, deliver such certificate to the Registrar and the cause of death as stated in the certificate shall be entered in the register together with the name of the certifying medical practitioner.
(3)
In the case that any certificate under subsection (1) above certifies that the cause of death of any person has resulted from plague, cholera, small-pox or any disease that is required to be notified to foreign countries as a dangerous infectious disease under any
Convention with regard to dangerous infectious diseases for the time being in force, which is not known at the time to be prevalent in the area where the deceased person died, the Registrar may, if he is not satisfied of the correctness of the diagnosis, refuse to act upon such certificate and refuse to register the cause of death until the circumstances of such death have been immediately reported to the
Superintendent-Registrar and the Health Officer of the area where the deceased person died, and such further and other opinion as to the cause of death as such Registrar may require has been given.
22 Laws of Malaysia ACT 299