THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 24, 1934.
necessary for the journey and of any intervening hours of darkness and of general or public holidays as defined by the Holidays Ordinance 1912) after such death, information of the particulars required to be registered concerning such death, and in the presence of the registrar to sign the register:
Provided that where no such informant as aforesaid is forthcoming, the person finding the body shall within twenty- four hours after such finding proceed as provided in sub- section (2).
Vict.
c. 88, s. 11.
(2) When a person dies in a place which is not a house, 37 & 38 or a dead body is found elsewhere than in a house, it shall be the duty of every relative of the deceased, having knowledge of any of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death, and, in default of such relative, of every person present at the death, and of any person finding and of any person taking charge of the body, and of the person causing the body to be buried, to give to the officer in charge of the nearest police station, within twenty-four hours after the death or the finding, such information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death as the inform- ant possesses, and such particulars shall be forthwith forwarded by the said officer to a registrar.
(3) When an inquiry is held by a magistrate into the death of any person the Magistrate holding the inquiry shall inquire of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death and shall send to the Registrar General within twenty- four hours after the termination of the inquiry, a certificate under his hand giving information concerning the death and specifying the said particulars and the time and place at which the inquiry was held and the Registrar General shall cause the deaths and particulars to be duly registered.
When an inquiry is held by a magistrate on any dead body no person shall with respect to such dead body or death be subject to any penalty for failing to give information in pursuance of any other provision of this Ordinance.
(4) After the expiration of 48 hours from any death or the finding of any dead body or the completion of an inquiry by a magistrate whichever is latest (exclusive of the time necessary for the journey and of any general or public holidays as defined by the Holidays Ordinance 1912) the death shall be registered in the Post Register book of deaths..
procure
15.-(1) Notwithstanding any omission to report, or Duty of furnish information as to any death within the time laid down registrars to in Section 14-it shall be the duty of every registrar to procure registration by all means in his power the best and most accurate inform- of deaths. ation respecting any death which may have occurred within his district and cause the same to be registered.
citizens.
cf. Ordin-
(2) In every case in which a registrar receives information Deaths of of the death in the Colony of any citizen of the United States U.S. of America, he shall at once inform the Official Administrator, through the Registrar General, of the fact, in order that the ance No. 2 necessary information may be immediately forwarded to the of 1897,
s. 14 (2). nearest consular officer of the said United States.
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