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Act, 1952
Part I—cont.
with a certificate stating the particulars necessary for the registration of the death so far as they have been ascertained at the inquest.
(3) Where an inquest is adjourned under this section the coroner shall not resume it except on the direction of the Secretary of State and, if he does resume it, shall proceed in all respects as if the inquest had not previously been begun, except that it shall not be obligatory on the coroner to view the body or to furnish the registrar of deaths with any certificate or further certificate, as the case may be.
(4) Section four of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926 (which restricts the removal out of England of the body of a deceased person) shall not apply to the body of a person who at the time of his death had a relevant association with a visiting force:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply as respects the body of a person concerning whose death, by virtue of a direction of the Secretary of State under subsection (1) or (3) of this section, an inquest is required to be held or, if begun, is required to be resumed.
(5) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of section two of the said Act of 1926 (which relates to certificates to be given to persons giving information concerning deaths), the registrar shall not give a certificate under that subsection to the person giving information concerning a death if that person informs the registrar that the body is one as respects which the last foregoing subsection has effect and that it is proposed to remove the body out of England.
(6) In this section the expression “homicide” includes murder, manslaughter, infanticide and any offence under the law of the country in question which is analogous to any of those offences.
(7) In the application of this section to Northern Ireland for the references to the Secretary of State there shall be substituted references to the Minister of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland, and subsections (4) and (5) shall be omitted.
Application to visiting forces of law relating to home forces. 8.—(1) Where under any enactment a power is exercisable by any authority or person—
- (a) as respects any of the home forces or their members or service courts or other persons in any way connected therewith, or
- (b) as respects any property used or to be used for the purposes of any of the home forces, or for taking possession of any property to be so used, or for acquiring (whether
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