I beg to move as an amendment to delete the section and to substitute therefor a new section as follows:—
2.—(1) In any case (other than those provided for by Section 1 of this Act) in which the coroner is informed of the death within his district of a person who was not attended in his last illness and until his death by a duly qualified medical practitioner or that a medical certificate of the cause of death of any person is not procurable, he may inquire into the circumstances of the death of such person, and if he is unable to ascertain the cause of such death he may if he shall think fit hold a public inquiry for the purpose of ascertaining the cause of such death and shall communicate the result of such inquiry in writing under his hand to the registrar of deaths in like manner as he is required to communicate to the registrar the findings of the jury upon coroner's inquest under Section 16 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland), 1880, and thereupon the registrar shall make an entry of the cause of such death accordingly and shall state in such entry that the information was received from the coroner and shall transmit the same to the superintendent registrar who shall send the same to the Registrar-General who shall preserve such information with the records of his office.
(2) It shall be the duty of the local Superintendent of the Gárda Síochána to inform the coroner of the death within his district of any person who was not attended in his last illness and until his death by a duly qualified medical practitioner or in whose case a medical certificate of the cause of death is not procurable, as aforesaid.