Section 59, The National Civil Registration Act, 2016

(1) On the death following an illness of a person whowas attended during that illness by a registered medical practitioner, the practitioner shall sign and give to a qualified informant a certificate stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the cause of the death, and the informant shall give the certificate to any Registration Officer together with the form specified in subsection (1) of section 56 containing the required particulars in relation to the death. (2) Where a Registration Officer is given a certificate under subsection (1), the Registration Officer shall enter in the Register of Deaths, together with the required particulars- (a) the cause of the death stated in the certificate, and (b) the name and address of the registered medical practitioner concerned. 42 43 of deaths. of deaths occurring outside Sierra Leone of citizens domiciled in Sierra Leone. after more than twelve months from death. Certification of cause of death.