(1) A registrar of deaths shall not give any one or more certificates of death for the payment in the whole of any sum of money exceeding £1,000 on the death of a child under five years, or for the payment in the whole of a sum exceeding £1,000 on the death of a child under ten years.

(2) A registrar of deaths shall not grant any such certificate unless the cause of death has been previously entered in the register of deaths on the certificate of a coroner or of a registered medical practitioner who attended the deceased child during its last illness, or except upon the production of a certificate of the probable cause of death under the hand of a registered medical practitioner, or of other satisfactory evidence thereof.