Singapore legislation
Section 9
Section 9
Post-mortem examination
Amended by5/2019
Where any person has died while being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may order a post‑mortem examination of the body of that person for the purpose of —
(a)
determining the cause or circumstances of the death of that person; or
(b)
investigating into any outbreak or suspected outbreak of, or preventing the spread or possible outbreak of, that disease.