34. A physician and a specialized nurse practitioner who certify a death for which they are unable to establish the probable causes or which appears to them to have occurred as a result of negligence or in obscure or violent circumstances shall immediately notify a coroner or a peace officer.
They shall do likewise where they are unable to establish the probable causes of a death certified by a nurse other than a specialized nurse practitioner or where such a death appears to them to have occurred as a result of negligence or in obscure or violent circumstances.
1983, c. 41, s. 34; 2011, c. 27, s. 35; 2023, c. 152023, c. 15, s. 491.