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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 24, 1934.
Duty of registrar when deceased
not attended by medical
21. In case of the death of any person who has not been attended during his last illness by any registered medical practitioner, or in any case in which a registrar suspects that the reported cause of death is not the true cause, it shall be practitioner, the duty of the registrar to institute or cause to be instituted immediate inquiries with a view to ascertaining the true cause of death.
or where
in doubt
as to cause
of death.
Searches of books and indexes in General
Register Office, certificates, fees, etc.
Particular search.
Official seal.
Evidential value of entry or certificate.
Penalty for not duly registering
births and deaths.
22.-(1) The Registrar General shall cause indexes of the register books in the General Register Office to be made, and any person shall be entitled on payment of the fee prescribed by sub- sections (2) or (3), as the case may be, to search during office hours such indexes and register books, and to receive a copy of any entry in the said register books, certified under the hand of a registrar and sealed or stamped with the seal or stamp of the General Register Office, for which a fee of one dollar shall be paid.
(2) A search, either in indexes or in district registers or in the register books of the General Register Office, for any given entry over any period not exceeding five years shall be deemed a particular search, and a fee of one dollar shall be paid in respect of every such particular search.
(3) A search either in the indexes or in district registers or in the register books of the General Register Office for information other than that concerning any given entry shall be deemed a general search the fee for which shall be $5 for any number of successive hours not exceeding six.
23.-(1) The Registrar General shall cause to be made a seal of the General Register Office and shall cause to be sealed or stamped therewith all certified copies of entries given in the said office.
(2) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in a registry book for the registration of births or of deaths shall be received as evidence of the birth or death to which the same relates without other or further proof of such entry : Provided that no such entry in a Post Register book shall be deemed proof of the birth or death to which it relates without other or further evidence thereof: Provided, also, that no certified copy purporting to be given in the said office shall be of any force or effect unless it is sealed or stamped as aforesaid, and unless the entry to which it relates either purports to have been signed by some person professing to be the informant and to be such person as required by this Ordinance to give information to a registrar concerning such birth or death, or purports to have been made upon a certificate from a magistrate or otherwise in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance, or, where more than twelve- months have intervened between the day of a birth or death and the day of the registration of such birth or death, unless it purports to have been made with the consent and authority of the Registrar General.
24. Every person who,-
(1) being charged with the duty of registering births or deaths, refuses or, without reasonable excuse, omits to register any birth or death of which he has had due notice as aforesaid; or.