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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH JULY, 1872.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for registering Births and Deaths in Hongkong.
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HEREAS it is expedient to provide the Means for a complete Preamble.
W Register of the Births and Deaths of the Inhabitants of
the Colony of Hongkong: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
Chief Registrar of Births and
I. The Office of the Registrar General shall be "The General Registrar Register Office" for keeping a Register of all Births and Deaths General to be of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Hongkong, and the Registrar General shall be the Chief Registrar of all such Births and Deaths. Deaths.
II. District Registers of Births and Deaths shall be kept at such Police Stations in the City of Victoria, and at any other Station Registers to he in the Villages which may be hereafter declared by the Governor established at to be a Register Office, and the Inspector, Sergeant or other certain Places. Police Officer for the Time being in charge of such Station shall
be a Deputy Registrar of all Births and Deaths occurring within the District, Place or Village where such Police Station is situate.
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III. All Registers of the Births and Deaths of the Chinese Registers of Population of the Colony shall be kept in both the English and Chinese Births, Chinese Languages.
&c., to be kept in English and Chinese.
IV. The Registrar General shall cause to be printed on Account Register Books of the said Register Office a sufficient Number of Register Books to be provided. for making Entries of all Births and Deaths of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Hongkong according to the Form of Schedules (4) and (B) to this Ordinance annexed; and the said Register Books shall be of durable Materials, and in them shall be printed upon each side of every Leaf the Heads of Information herein required to be known and registered of Births and Deaths respectively; and every Page of each such Books shall be numbered progressively from the Beginning to the End, beginning with Number One; and every Place of Entry shall be also numbered progressively from the Beginning to the End of the Book, beginning with Num- her One; and every Entry shall be divided from the following Entry by a printed Line.
V. The Registrar General shall cause himself to be provided Registrar to with, and shall furnish to every Deputy Registrar, a sufficient register Births Number of Register Books of Births and of Register Books of and Deaths. Deaths; and the Registrar General and every Deputy Registrar shall be authorised, and is hereby required, to inform himself care- fully of every Birth and every Death which shall happen within his Districts or District, Place or Village after the
Day 1872, and to learn and register as soon after the Event as conveniently may be done, without Fee or Reward save as hereinafter mentioned, in One of the said Books, the Particulars required to be registered according to the Forms in the said Schedules (A) and (B) respectively touching every such Birth or every such Death, as the Case may be, which shall not have been already registered, every such Entry being made in Order from the Beginning to the End of the Book.
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VI. The Father or Mother of any Child born, or the Occupier Parents or of every House or Tenement within the Colony of Hongkong in Occupiers of which any Birth or Death shall happen after the
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1872, may within Thirty Days next after the Day of such Birth or within Five Days after the Day of such happen, and Death respectively, give Notice of such Birth or Death to the Policemen and Registrar General or to the Deputy Registrar of the District, Coroners in Village or Place in which such Birth or Death shall have occurred; Foundlings or and in Case any new born Child or any Dead Body shall be exposed Dead found exposed, any Police Constable who shall have found such Bodies to give Child exposed and the Coroner in the Case of the Dead Body, Notice. shall forthwith give Notice and Information thereof and of the Place where such Child or Dead Body was found to the Registrar General or Deputy Registrar, as the Case may be; and for the Purpose of this Ordinance, the Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol, and Superintendent, Warden or Keeper of every Hospital or other public or charitable Institution, shall be deemed the Occupier thereof.
VII. The Father or Mother of every Child born in the Colony Parent or of Hongkong after the said
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Occupier of One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-two, or in Case of the House required Death, Illness, Absence or Inability of the Father and Mother, Particulars of
to give the Occupier of the House or Tenement in which such Child shall Birth so far as have been born, shall within Thirty Days after the Day of known.
every such Birth, give Information, upon being requested so to do, to the Registrar General or Deputy Registrar of the District or Place within which such Birth may have occurred, according to the best of his or her Knowledge and Belief, of the several Particulars hereby required to be known and registered.
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