Cap. 16 Art. 296Notice of death by physician,

(1) On the death of any person, the physician or surgeon in attendance during the last illness who of his own personal knowledge or from information obtained from any other person is aware of such death shall, without delay, give notice thereof in writing, manually or electronically signed as defined in Regulation

(EU) No. 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market, according to Form F in Part II of the First Schedule to this Code, to the officer charged with the duty of drawing up the act of death, specifying the house or other place in which such person died, the cause of death, and the hour at which the death occurred.

(2) Such physician or surgeon may deliver the notice to any adult member of the family of the deceased, to be transmitted to the officer above-mentioned or such notice may be delivered by electronic means.

(3) The provisions of this article shall not apply, if the deceased is one of the persons, on the occasion of whose death the drawing up of an act of death is not, under the provisions of article 235, required for the purposes of this law.