Post mortem examination

(1) The medical practitioner who is so ordered or required under section 8 or 9 of this Act to make the post mortem examination shall thereupon, unless he is unavoidably prevented, proceed to the place where the body is lying, and make such examination of it as may enable him to ascertain the (2) If by reason of the distance between the place where the dead body is lying and the place where the medical practitioner is residing or for any other cause, it is inconvenient for him to proceed to the former place, the dead body may be removed by a member of the police department to a mortuary or any other convenient place in any part of Belize. (3) The medical practitioner, if it is necessary in order to ascertain the cause of death, shall extend the examination to the dissection of the body and an analysis of any portion thereof, and may cause any portion thereof to be transmitted to any qualified government medical officer or other expert referred to in section 36 (1) of the Evidence Act, Cap. 95. (4) Where a medical practitioner ordered or required to make a post mortem examination is unavoidably prevented from so doing, he shall forthwith give notice of the fact to the coroner or at the nearest police station.