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Medical Certificate of Death Regulations

made under clause 51(1)(fb) of the

Vital Statistics Act

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 494

O.I.C. 2013-3 (effective January 15, 2013), N.S. Reg. 7/2013

amended to O.I.C. 2019-179 (effective July 9, 2019), N.S. Reg. 99/2019

Table of Contents

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Citation

Definitions

When nurse practitioner authorized to complete and sign medical certificate of death

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Medical Certificate of Death Regulations .

Definitions

2 In these regulations,

“attending nurse practitioner” means a nurse practitioner who has responsibility for

the treatment and care of a person or, if 2 or more nurse practitioners share that

responsibility, any 1 of those nurse practitioners;

“medical certificate of death” means a medical certificate of cause of death required

by subsection 17(3) of the Vital Statistics Act .

When nurse practitioner authorized to complete and sign medical certificate of death

3 An attending nurse practitioner may complete and sign a medical certificate of death for a

person for whose treatment and care the attending nurse practitioner was responsible if

(

a) the person’s death was expected as the result of a diagnosed chronic or acute

illness or condition; and

(

b) there is no reason to believe that the person’s death was a result of any of the

circumstances referred to in Sections 9 to 12 of the Fatality Investigations Act .

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Medical Certificate of Death Regulations

N.S. Reg.

99/2019

Vital Satistics Act

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Medical Certificate of Death Regulations made

under the Vital Statistics Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

7/2013

Jan 15, 2013

date specified

Jan 25, 2013

99/2019

Jul 9, 2019

date specified

Jul 19, 2019

The

following regulations are not yet in force and are not included in the

current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

2, defn . of “medical certificate” .......

am. 99/2019

Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections

Note

Effective

date

Repealed and Superseded

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this

table. It may not reflect the entire

history of regulations on this subject matter.