Just Googling : From 'Who do you think you are' Magazine forum

Question raised on a death certificate was'

'Causing The Body To Be Buried'

and one reply from an ex Registrar

'To register a death you have to be qualified to do so under one of a list of legal criteria.

The qualification of "causing the body or be buried (or cremated), is used when the person registering the death does not qualify to be allowed to do so in any closer way. Often it may be a friend or neighbour, or a solicitor dealing with the estate of a person with no close family."