Medical practitioner who attended a deceased person to certify cause of his death.

In the case of a person who has been attended in his last illness by a duly qualified medical practitioner, that practitioner shall within three days of his becoming congnizant of the death of such person sign and forward to the Registrar General a certificate of the cause of such person’s death, in such form as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Commissioner in this behalf, and the cause of death as stated in such certificate shall be entered in the register, together with the name of the certifying medical practitioner.