Non-compliance by medical practitioner with order to make post mortem examination

Where any medical practitioner is ordered or required to make any post mortem examination of a body, and the order or requirement has been personally served on, or left at the residence of the practitioner, or has been communicated to him in any manner authorised by this Act in sufficient time to enable him to comply therewith and he fails to comply therewith he shall on conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the magistrate that he had good and sufficient cause for the non-compliance and that he forthwith gave notice to the coroner, or at the nearest police station, that he was so unable to comply with the order or requirement.