Under What Law Medical Officer is authorized to conduct postmortem

The medical officer  is authorized to conduct postmortem under a specific provision of law and is duly notified

Punjab Government Notification No. 332, dated 3rd April, 1905.

This Notification provides as under:-

In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 174of the Criminal Procedure Code the Lieutenant Governor (Governor) is pleased to appoint the Medical Officer hereinafter named to conduct post-mortem examination under that Section and to rule that, except as provided in clauses 3 and 4, bodies for such examination hall be forwarded to authorized officer employed within the district where the case arises, to whom they can be brought by rail or otherwise in the shortest time.

1.      The authorized officers appointed under this notification are:

(1)   all Civil Surgeons;

(2)   all Medical Officers holding Collateral Civil Charges;

(3)   all staff Surgeons;

(4)   all Assistant Surgeons.

2.      Bodies for post-mortem examination shall be forwarded to Staff Surgeons:

(a)   When they those of soldiers, camp followers or other persons entitled to the professional attendance of the Military Medical Staff; and

(b)   When they do not come under clause (a), but the death occurs within the jurisdiction of the court of the Cantonment Magistrate and there is no Civil Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon residing in the Cantonment, or within 3 miles of it.