174 Laws of Malaysia Act 593 (3) Every police officer making an investigation under this section into the cause of any death, may exercise any or all of the special powers in relation to police investigations in seizable cases conferred on the police officer by Chapter XIII and sections 112, 113 and 114 shall apply to statements made by persons examined in the course of the investigation. (4) The report shall be signed by the police officer by whom it was drawn up, and where the report was not drawn up by the Officer in charge of the Police District it shall immediately be forwarded to him. (5) The Officer in charge of the Police District shall immediately forward that report to the Magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the body of the deceased was found. (6) When the information given under subsection (1) is of such a nature that, though it affords reasonable ground for believing that a death has occurred, it is unlikely that the body of such deceased person can be found owing to its destruction by fire or otherwise or to the fact that the body is lying in a place from which it cannot be recovered, the officer referred to in subsection (2) shall nevertheless make an investigation and draw up a report, and forward the report to the nearest Magistrate who shall proceed in reference to the report as in the case of a report forwarded under subsection (5). Duty of officer to arrange for post-mortem examination in certain cases 330. Every officer making an investigation under section 329 shall if there appears to him any reason to suspect that the deceased came by his death in a sudden or unnatural manner or by violence or that his death resulted in any way from or was accelerated by any unlawful act or omission on the part of any other person, at once inform the nearest *Government Medical Officer and, unless it appears to him that the body should be viewed by a Magistrate in situ, shall take or send the body to the nearest Government hospital or other convenient place for the holding of a post-mortem examination of the body by a Government Medical Officer: *NOTE—Medical Officers of the Armed Forces to be regarded as Government Medical Officers, for the purpose of inquiries into deaths and evidence under the Criminal Procedure Code—see L.N. 198/1952.

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