Part 1: Main Provisions Section 20 and Schedule 14: Review of cause of death certificates and cremations: Scotland
Part 1 of this Schedule enables the Scottish Ministers to suspend the review of death certificates in Scotland under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 and the Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 and makes provision for reviews which have been started but not completed when the suspension takes effect.
	Part 2 of the Schedule enables the Scottish Ministers to suspend sections 53 to 55 and 87 of the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016 and relevant associated provisions of the Cremation (Scotland) Regulations 2019. This removes duties on cremation authorities, funeral directors and local authorities to trace and contact relatives of deceased persons to ascertain their wishes in respect of ashes. Instead, the relevant bodies will be placed under a duty to retain the ashes and to comply with their duties under that Act once the provisions have been re-instated.
	The territorial extent and application of the section and Schedule is Scotland only.