Emergency cases

When from any cause the instructions of the coroner cannot be promptly obtained, and it is expedient that a person’s dead body should be examined by a duly qualified medical practitioner without delay, the Commissioner of Police or an assistant superintendent of police or, if the instructions of any 9 of those officers cannot be promptly obtained, the member of the police department in charge of the police station nearest to the place where the dead body is lying, may require a duly qualified medical practitioner to make a post mortem examination of the body.