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C.S.O I in 4829/31.
A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 2:-29.8.31.-5.]
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to
the Registration of Births and Deaths.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Births and Short title. Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinauce, 1931.
2.-(1) Section 3 (1) of the Births and Deaths Regis- Amendment tration Ordinance, 1896, is amended by the substitution of of Ordinance the words "Medical Department" for the words tary Department”.
'Sani- No. 7 of
1896, s. 3 and Regulations.
(2) Section 3 (2) of the said Ordinance is amended by the substitution of the words "Director of Medical and
Sanitary Services for the words "Head of the Sanitary Department".
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(3) Corresponding substitutions shall be made wherever the words " Sanitary Department or "Head of the Sanitary Department' occur in the Births and Deaths Registration Regulations made under sections 4 and 29 of the said Ordinance and published in Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925, under the Regulations Ordinance, 1926. Ordinance
No. 1 of 1926.
3. The following sub-section is added at the end of Amendment section 6 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, of Ordinance 1896 :-
No. 7 of 1896, s. 6.
(3) In every case where information is given of the death of any citizen of the United States of America in the Colony, the Registrar shall at once inform the Official Administrator of the fact, in order that the necessary information may he immediately forwarded to the nearest consular officer of the said United States.
4. Section 10 (2) of the Births and Deaths Registra- Amendment tion Ordinance, 1896, is amended by the deletion of the of Ordinance words "for every year or part of a year that has elapsed No. 7 of since the birth".
1896, s. 10 (2).
5. Section 11 of the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1896, is amended as follows :—
of Ordinance No. 7 of
in the 1896, s. 11.
(a) by the deletion of the words one dollar
fourth line of sub-section (2) and by the substi- tution therefor of the words "two dollars and fifty cents".
(b) by the deletion of the words "one dollar" in the second line of sub-section (3) and by the substi- tution therefor of the words two dollars and fifty cents".
(c) by the deletion of the words "two dollars" in the fourth line of sub-section (3) and by the substi- tution therefor of the words "five dollars ".
6. Section 18 of the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1896, is amended by the deletion of the last of Ordinance eight lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the No. 7 of words :-
1896, s. 18.
"stated is the true cause, and, in every case in which he is not satisfied in this regard, it shall be his duty to institute or cause to be instituted immediate inquiries with a view to ascertaining the true cause of death".