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Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (Prohibition on Disposal of a Body without Authorisation) Amendment Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/281)
Agenda item 4 is consideration of one negative instrument. The purpose of the instrument is to amend regulations 4 and 5 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (Prohibition on Disposal of a Body without Authorisation) Regulations 2015, so that a person who has died in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and whose death is subject to a coroner’s investigation, can be buried or cremated in Scotland, with the consent of the coroner, before the conclusion of the coroner’s investigation and prior to death registration.
At its meeting on 29 October 2024, the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument and made no recommendations on it. No motion to annul has been lodged in relation to the instrument. Do members have any comments?
As members have no comments, I propose that the committee makes no recommendation in relation to the instrument. Do members agree?
Members indicated agreement.
At our next meeting on Monday 11 November, we will continue to take oral evidence as part of the committee’s stage 1 scrutiny of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.
That concludes the public part of our meeting.
11:24 Meeting continued in public until 11:56.