THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.
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65.-(1) Where there is found in the district of a Deaths sanitary authority any dead body which there is reason to consequence believe is the body of a person who has died in consequence of war of war operations, then, notwithstanding anything in any operations. Ordinance, the sanitary authority shall, unless it is satisfied that adequate arrangements have been otherwise made for the collection and interment of the body, itself provide for the collection and interment thereof.
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1934.
(2) Section 16 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance Ordinance, 1934, (which provides that the body of a deceased person shall not be disposed of without either the certificate of the registrar of deaths or an order of a magistrate), shall not apply in relation to any disposal of a dead body effected in pursuance of this regulation."
(3) No person who, apart from this regulation. would be required to give any information concerning a death to a magistrate shall be obliged so to give that information, if that person has reasonable cause to believe that the death occurred in consequence of war operations; and, except in any particular case in which the Governor otherwise directs. a magistrate shall not be obliged or authorized to take any action in relation to any death concerning which information need not, by virtue of this regulation, be given to a magis-
trate.
(4) The enactments relating to the registration of deaths shall have effect as if the information thereby required to be given to a registrar concerning the death of any person included, in a case where the informant has reasonable cause to believe that the death occurred in consequence of war operations, a statement that the death so occurred.
(5) The enactments relating to the registration of deaths shall, in relation to any case in which the person causing a dead body to be buried is a sanitary authority, and the officer or servant of the sanitary authority who is responsible for the burial has reasonable cause to believe that the death occurred in consequence of war operations, have effect as if the class of persons required by those enactments to give information concerning the death to a registrar included the said officer or servant; and the duty imposed by the said enactments, as amended by this regulation, to give any information concerning the death to a registrar and to attend before the registrar and sign the register shall, in that case, be deemed to have been discharged by the said officer or servant if, within the time limited for the giving of that information, he sends the information to the registrar.
(6) Where, in accordance with the enactments relating to the registration of deaths, as amended by this regulation, there is given to a registrar any information concerning a death which includes a statement that the death occurred in consequence of war operations, the registrar shall, subject to any such general or special directions as may be given by the Registrar General of Births and Deaths for determining the manner in which a death so occurring is to be registered, register the death forthwith in the manner directed by the said enactments.
(7) In this regulation-
(a) war operations" means operations of the armed forces of the enemy, or operations of any of His Majesty's forces while in action against the enemy or while acting in
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