Section 20

Such person shall, when furnishing particulars of the death, deliver such certificate to the Registrar or Deputy Registrar, and the cause of death as stated in the certificate shall be entered on the prescribed form together with the name of the certifying medical practitioner.

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In case any certificate under subsection (1) certifies that the cause of death of any person has arisen 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 District where the deceased person died, the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar, if he is not satisfied of the correctness of the diagnosis, shall refuse to act upon such certificate and refuse to record or register the cause of death until the circumstances of such death have been immediately reported to the

Regional Registrar and the Health Officer of the District where the deceased person died, and such further and other opinion as to the cause of death as such Registrar or Deputy Registrar may require has been given.

When post-mortem examination is held