Burial and Cremation Regulations 2025
56Medical practitioners to refuse certain applications
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56 Medical practitioners to refuse certain applications
A medical practitioner must not accept an application for a cremation permit, or grant the application and issue a cremation permit in respect of a deceased person, if the medical practitioner –
(a) is the senior next of kin of the deceased person; or
(b) is related by marriage to, or is the spouse of, a person who is the senior next of kin of the deceased person; or
(c) is a partner, or an employee, of the medical practitioner who issued the medical certificate in respect of the deceased person; or
(d) was, immediately before the death of the deceased person, a partner or an employee of the deceased person; or
(e) is a relative of the medical practitioner who issued the medical certificate in respect of the deceased person; or
(f) has already issued a medical certificate in respect of the deceased person; or
(g) has a pecuniary interest in the estate of the deceased person.