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Medicolegal Death Investigation
Mozambique
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Declaration and Notification
Death Registration
Informants
Who is designated primary informant for unnatural or suspicious deaths?
Specified officer of the medical legal system
Recommended Practice based on International Guidelines
Law Source
Mozambique
Legal Analysis
Where there are signs of violent death or suspicion of crime or when the doctor declares ignorance of the cause of death, Article 238 requires the civil registrar to abstain from registering the death and to immediately inform judicial or police authorities to conduct an autopsy and investigation. Impliedly, this suggests that medicolegal authorities must take over, instead of the usual informants.
