Question No. 4
Reply by the Secretary for Security to a Question raised by the Hon. K. C. CHAN, OBE., JP., in the Legislative Council on
Wednesday, 29 May 1985
Can Government explain the procedures for u issuing death certificates for victims of industrial accidents and the normal time taken to issue such certificates?
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Reply:
Sir,
The procedures for issuing death certificates for victims
of industrial accidents are the same as those for other persons who
die unnatural deaths.
Under the provisions of the Coroners 'Ordinance, when a person dies suddenly, by accident (including industrial accidents) or as a result of violence, or under suspicious circumstances, a
coroner may enquire into the cause of the death and the circumstances connected with it. The object of the enquiry is generally speaking
to determine the cause and whether any person should be charged
with a criminal offence as a result. When the coroner is satisfied
as to the cause, he notifies the Registrar of Births and Deaths of
the particulars of the deceased (including the person's name, sex, age, last address, date and place of death and the cause of death)
to enable the Registrar to make an entry in the Death Register. the particulars of the dead person are recorded in the Death Register, the registration procedures are considered complete. The Registrar
Once
may then issue a death certificate for the person concerned on application by a member of the public. The Registrar will also
inform the next of kin that he can now collect a death certificate.
He will get it as soon as he turns up at the General Register Office.
What takes the time is the coroner's enquiry length of that depends on how complicated the issues are.
and the
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