Issue of certificate of registra- tion of
death or of certificate of order for burial.
Second Schedule.
Form No. 11.
Second Schedule.
Form No. 12.
Second Schedule.
Form No. 13.
Burial of deceased child as still-born,
etc.
37 & 38 Vict.
c. 88, s. 18,
Second Schedule.
Forms
Nos. 14 and 15.
Notice where coffin con-
tains more than one body.
c. 88, s. 19.
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17.-(1) A registrar, immediately on registering any death or as soon thereafter as he may be required to do so, shall, without any fee, deliver, either to the person giving information concerning the death or to the undertaker or other person having charge of the funeral, a certificate under his hand, according to Form No. 11 in the Second Schedule, that such death has been duly registered, and such certificate shall be delivered by such undertaker or other person to the officer in charge of the police station for the district where the death was registered: Provided always that any magistrate may order any body to be buried or cremated, if he thinks fit, before registration of the death, and shall in such case give a certificate of his order in writing under his hand, according to Form No. 12 in the Second Schedule, to the relative of the deceased or other person who causes the body to be buried or cremated or to such undertaker or other person having charge of the funeral, and such certificate shall be delivered by the recipient to such police officer, as aforesaid.
(2) In addition to the certificates mentioned above, any person obtaining registration under section 14 shall be entitled at the time of registration to receive a free certificate in Form No. 13 in the Second Schedule.
18. No person shall wilfully bury or procure to be buried the body of any deceased child as if it were still-born. No person shall bury or procure to be buried any still-born child, unless there is delivered to him either-
(1) a written certificate, according to Form No. 14 in the Second Schedule, that such child was not born alive, signed by a registered medical practitioner who was in attendance at the birth or has examined the body of such child; or
(2) a declaration, according to Form No. 15 in the Second Schedule, signed by some person who would, if the child had been born alive, have been required by this Ordinance to give information concerning the birth, to the effect that no medical practitioner was present at the birth, or that his certificate cannot be obtained, or that the child was not born alive; or
(3) an order of a magistrate.
19. When there is in the coffin in which any deceased person is brought for burial the body of any other deceased person or the body of a still-born child, the undertaker or other 37 & 38 Vict. person who has charge of the funeral shall deliver to the officer in charge of the police station for the district where the death occurred or where such body was found a notice in writing, signed by such undertaker or other person, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief, with respect to each body, particulars according to forms Nos. 16, 17 and 18 in the Second Schedule.
Second Schedule.
Forms: Nos. 16,
17 and 18.
Provisions as to
certificates
of cause
of death.
37 & 38 Vict.
c. 88, s. 20.
20. With respect to certificates of the cause of death, the following provisions shall have effect:-