Section 5
Post-mortem examination of body
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(1)
Upon receiving the information referred to in section 4
a Medical Officer or hospital assistant shall, as soon as practicable, perform a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased.
(2)
The Medical Officer or hospital assistant, if it is necessary in order to ascertain the cause of death, shall extend the examination to the dissection of the body and an analysis of any portion thereof, and may cause any portion thereof to be transmitted to the Government
Analyst or the officer in charge of the Central Laboratory of the
Medical Department, as the case may require.
[Am.Ord. No. 19/62.]
(3)
If a post-mortem examination is held in pursuance of this section or pursuant to an order under section 9 (2) or if exhumation of a body is carried out in pursuance of this Ordinance the body or remains thereof shall not be buried or reburied as the case may be except under and in accordance with the order of a Magistrate having jurisdiction in the district where such body or remains may be.
(4)
Subsection (3) shall not be deemed to require an order of a
Magistrate to dispose of any portion of a body which may have been sent for examination under this Ordinance to a Medical Officer or hospital assistant and such portion may, unless a Magistrate otherwise orders, be disposed of in such manner as the Director of Medical
Services may by any general or special direction direct.
[Subsections (3) and (4) inserted by Ordinance 15 of 1957]
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