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of a declaration, according to Form No. 20 in the Second Second Schedule, setting forth the nature of the error and the true Form facts of the case, and made by two persons required by this No. 20. Ordinance to give information concerning the birth or death with reference to which the error has been made, or, in default of such persons, then by two credible persons to the satisfaction of the registrar having knowledge of the truth of the case, and the registrar shall initial such marginal entry and shall add thereto the day and month and year when such correction is made; and
(4) where an error of fact or substance (other than an error relating to the cause of death) occurs in the information given to the Registrar General by a magistrate con- cerning a dead body upon which he has held an inquiry, or in respect of which he has issued a burial order, he may, if satisfied by evidence upon oath or statutory declaration that such error exists, certify under his hand to the Registrar General the nature of the error and the true facts of the case as ascertained by him on such evidence, and the error may thereupon be corrected by that officer in the register by entering in the margin (without any alteration of the original entry) the facts as so certified by such magistrate, and he shall initial such marginal entry and shall add thereto the day and month and year when such correction is made.
27. Except where otherwise specially provided by this Penalty, Ordinance, every person who commits any breach or infringement of any of the provisions of this Ordinance or fails to perform any duty imposed upon him by this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to રી fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
28. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to Governor make regulations for the due carrying into effect of the in Council provisions of this Ordinance, and to revoke, alter, or add to regulations the Schedules.
or
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etc., the Schedules.
formerly
Ordinances.
29. The registers of births and deaths kept under Registers former Ordinances shall, as hitherto, be preserved by the kept under Registrar General, and all the provisions of this Ordinance former relating to entries in registers, alterations of or additions to registers, searches of registers, copies of entries in registers, custody of registers, or destruction of or injury to registers, and the provisions of any Ordinance relating to any offences in respect of registers of births or deaths authorised required to be kept under this Ordinance, shall mutatis mutandis apply to the said registers kept under former Ordinances: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Regis- trar General to keep separate supplementary register books for the purpose of registering the births of any persons who were born before the commencement of this Ordinance and whose births were not registered in the registers formerly kept under former Ordinances.
30. Sections 22, 23 and 24 of the Vaccination Ordinance. 1923, as amended by the Vaccination Amendment Ordinance, 1932, and forms 4, 5 and 6 in the Schedule thereto, are amended by the insertion of the word "General" after the word "Registrar" in the expression "Registrar of Births and Deaths' wherever the same appears.
Ordinances
31. The Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, Repeal of 1896, the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordin- Nos. 7 of ance, 1931, and the Births and Deaths Amendment Ordinance, 1896, 26 of 1932, are repealed.
1931, and 12 of 1932.