The coroner will instruct a pathologist to make an examination. He will require certain statements and may also require a formal identification. When the results of these enquiries are available, he then decides if an inquest is necessary. If the enquiries are closed he will send notice (pink form 100) to the registrar, either by post or our own staff. The registration may then proceed.

If the funeral is to be interment, then the registration must take place before the funeral. The registrar will issue the green certificate, which is required by the cemetery before the interment. Registration cannot however cannot take place before the registrar has the pink form from the coroner.

Referrals to the coroner are usually made by a doctor or the police. However, technically, anyone can ask the coroner to commence enquiries and in certain circumstances, a referral may be made by a registrar of crematorium referee if they are not satisfied with the information supplied. An example of such a referral could be reference to certain forms of cancer, which may be caused by industrial illness. Again, we emphasise that such events are extremely rare and where funeral arrangements have been made in consultation with the coroner, the coroner and his staff would do everything possible to allow these arrangements to stand.