Section 21, The Medical Examiners Act, 2021

(1) The Chief Medical Examiner may conduct or cause apost-mortem examination to be conducted, if he is of the opinion that a post- mortem examination is necessary to establish the manner and cause of death and such examination shall be at the cost of the State. (2) Where the Chief Medical Examiner conducts or causes a post-mortem examination to be conducted under subsection (1), he may - (a) perform or cause to be performed any operation, examination by way of an analysis, test or otherwise of any part or contents of a body that he thinks necessary, including causing any part or contents of a body or any other substance or thing to be retained for the purpose of determining the manner or cause of death; and (b) retain any part or contents of a body or any other substance or thing which appears to the Medical Examiner to be relevant in establishing the manner or cause of death.