Policy background Coroner’s Courts Provision of information to registrar when investigation discontinued
The Bill was amended by the Government in the House of Lords to include a provision to enable registrars to request information from coroners to facilitate a registration where the coroner has discontinued an investigation and issued their authority for a burial or cremation to take place and a qualified informant is subsequently unable or unwilling to come forward to register. This will address an anomaly whereby, in a small number of cases, families do not register a death when coroners authorise the disposal of a body and discontinue an investigation before any formal death registration has been completed.