§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Lord Advocate, having regard to the fact that in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland a number of interments take place without the production of a medical certificate of death, will he state what steps it is proposed to take to remedy this state of affairs.
*MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAYA medical certificate of death is not a necessary condition of burial in any part of Scotland. No action could be taken in the matter without legislation, which it is not at present proposed to undertake.