Please accept our condolences on your loss. We hope that the following information will be of help to you.
You will be contacted by the Register Office once the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death has been received and reviewed by the Medical Examiner. We will make an appointment for you at the Bromley Register Office and ask that a maximum of two people attend. We will send full details of your appointment in an email, once we have made the booking. The email will include details of where to find our offices, and the information that you will need to give the registrar during the appointment. We would ask that you do not attend our offices if you, or anyone with you, has tested positive for Covid or any other infectious disease.
The green certificate for burial or cremation will be transmitted electronically to the Funeral Director or cemetery office after the appointment.
A death must be registered at the register office in the borough where the death took place. If you choose to register in another register office, please be aware that the registrar in that office will not be able to issue certificates or any paperwork to allow the funeral to take place.
If the Coroner is making an investigation into the death, the registration cannot take place until the coroner has completed their investigation and issued paperwork to the register office. If the investigation leads to an inquest, then the registration will take place once the inquest has been held. The Coroner’s office will contact the family to let them know when they are able to obtain death certificates from the register office.
Fees
£12.50 per certificate (statutory fee) payment by card only.
Certificates can also be purchased online following the registration.
Documents we will issue
- Green certificate for burial or cremation sent electronically to the funeral director - separate procedures apply where the death has been referred to the Coroner.
- Unique number to access the Tell Us Once service.
- Death certificate when paid for during the registration or ordered online after the registration.
Out of hours emergency burial certificate service
An on-call service is available on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays (except Christmas Day) between 9am and 11am. This service is for the issue of burial certificates required for a funeral that is to take place within 24 hours.
The on-call registrar may be able to issue the burial certificate if:
- You can provide confirmation that the burial is to take place within 24 hours.
- A correctly completed medical certificate of cause of death from the doctor has been emailed to the registrars email address by the Medical Examiner, following scrutiny.
- The death does not have to be referred to the coroner.
- You are qualified to register the death.
To contact the Duty Registrar, please call the council’s out of hours emergency line: 0300 303 8671.