Interim death certificates

[little blue]

Hi
If an interim death certificate was issued would this be registered the same as a death cert and if so could you get a copy of one.

Dont know if that makes sense, but well i know what i mean 
Blue

[stanmapstone]

If the Coroner has decided hold an inquest then a full death certificate will not be available until after the inquest is concluded. However to enable the family to deal with banks, insurance companies etc the coroner will, on request, issue an Interim Certificate as to the Fact Of Death, more commonly known as an INTERIM DEATH CERTIFICATE.  The interim certificate is not a death certificate.
http://hmcoroner.powys.gov.uk/index.php?id=5#c20
This would not be registered the same as a death certificate.

Stan

[LizzieW]

That would explain why my 2 x g.grandfather's death certificate is (back)dated 6 July 1865 the date he died, when the coroner's inquest was held on 7 July 1865 and the coroner was in the informant on the certificate.  I'd always wondered how a certificate could be issued before the inquest.

Alternatively I suppose, the coroner just got his dates muddled up.

[stanmapstone]

CORONERS RULES 1984, SI 1984 No 552
29 Coroner to furnish certificate after adjournment
A certificate under the hand of a coroner stating the particulars which under [the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953] are required to be registered concerning a death which he furnishes to a registrar of deaths under [section 16(4) of the 1988 Act][9] shall be furnished within five days from the date on which the inquest is adjourned.
30 Coroner's interim certificate of the fact of death
When an inquest has been adjourned for any reason and [section 16(4) of the 1988 Act] does not apply, the coroner shall on application supply to any person who, in the opinion of the coroner, is a properly interested person an interim certificate of the fact of death.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/coroners/1984rules.html

Stan

[stanmapstone]

That would explain why my 2 x g.grandfather's death certificate is (back)dated 6 July 1865 the date he died, when the coroner's inquest was held on 7 July 1865 and the coroner was in the informant on the certificate.  I'd always wondered how a certificate could be issued before the inquest.

Alternatively I suppose, the coroner just got his dates muddled up.

The death certificate has to show the date of the death, and could not be issued before the inquest
that in every Case in which an Inquest shall be held on any dead Body the Jury shall inquire of the particulars herein required to be registered concerning the Death, and the Coroner shall inform the Registrar of the Finding of the Jury, and the registrar shall make the Entry accordingly.

Provided always, that the Coroner, upon holding any Inquest, may order the Body to be Buried, if he shall think fit, before Registry of the Death, and shall in such Case give a Certificate of his Order in Writing under his Hand, according to the Form of Schedule (F.) to this Act annexed,
http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/View?path=Browse/Legislation%20%28by%20date%29&active=yes&mno=4044

Stan

[little blue]

Cheers for that, i did know that they are issued in order for a funeral to take place but didn't know if they would be recorded as another official document along side of a death cert. It was just that a family member remembers seeing the cause of death as something else and the cert not looking quite like the one i have from the GRO.
 The official cause of death as on the cert by the coroner although not worded the same  as is supposed to be remembered amounts to the same cause of death, suppose they would have a definite answer after a PM

Just as interim death certs are not recorded otherwise its more expense and i would have to have it for the collection !

Thanks for replying

Blue