MLDI serves a critical legal, medical and public health purpose by investigating deaths due to violence, injury or other unnatural causes, helping law enforcement agencies establish whether a crime has been committed. To learn more about the interaction between MLDI systems and countries’ CRVS laws, scroll below.
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For a death referred to the MLDI system, does the law specify how cause of death information is transmitted to the civil registrar and/or statistics agency?
Is the same form used for all types of deaths, including natural deaths and deaths referred to MLDI?
Does the law clearly state who is responsible for medically certifying cause of death when deaths are unnatural or suspicious, or otherwise referred to the MLDI authority?
Does the law mandate that deaths in custody be referred to the medicolegal death investigation authority and specify who is responsible for notifying the authority?
Does the law clearly state what types of cases must be referred to the MLDI authority and is this in accordance with international guidance?
Who is the medicolegal death investigation (MLDI) authority in the jurisdiction?
Can the death registration record be amended by the registrar in medicolegal cases, after the inquiry has concluded?
What evidence or documents are required to register death?
Who is designated primary informant for unnatural or suspicious deaths?
