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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH JULY, 1872.
he shall be therefor entitled to receive, shall, without any Erasure of the original Entry, forthwith register therein that the Child was baptised by such Name and the Registrar General or Registrar shall thereupon certify upon the said Certificate the additional Entry so made.
Particulars
X. Some Person present at the Death or in attendance Some Person during the last Illness of every Person dying within the Colony present at Death, or of Hongkong after this Ordinance shall have come into Operation Occupier of or in Case of the Death, Illness, Inability, or Default of all House, re- such Persons, the Occupier of the House or Tenement, or if quired to give the Occupier be the Person who shall have died, some Inmate of Death. of the House or Tenement in which such Death shall have Registrar to happened, shall, within Seven Days next after the Day of make Entry of of such Death, give Information, upon being requested so to do, Finding of the to the Registrar General or Registrar, within whose District Jury upon such Death shall have occurred, according to the best of his or her Inquest. Knowledge and Belief, of the several, Particulars hereby required to be known and registered, touching the Death of such Person : Provided always, that in every Case in which an Inquest shall be held on any Dead Body, the Jury shall inquire of the Particulars herein required to be registered concerning the Death, and, the Coroner shall inform the Registrar General of the Finding of the Jurors, and the Registrar General shall make the Entry accordingly.
Coroner's
of Death to
to the Minister
XI. The Registrar General and every Registrar, immediately Registrar to upon registering any Death, or as soon thereafter as he shall give Certificate be required so to do, shall, without Fee or Reward, deliver of Registry to the Undertaker or other Person having charge of the Funeral, a Undertaker, Certificate under his Hand according to the Form of Schedule (E) who shall de- to this Ordinance annexed, that such Death has been duly regis- liver the same tered, and such Certificate shall be delivered by such Undertaker or or other Off- other Person to the Minister or Officiating Person (if any) who shall ciating Person, be required to bury or to perform any religious Service for the Burial if any. of the Dead Body, and if any Dead Body shall be buried for which no such Certificate shall have been delivered, the Person who shall bury or perform any funeral or any religious Service for the Burial, shall forthwith give Notice thereof to the Registrar: Provided Coroner may always, that the Coroner, upon holding any Inquest, may order order Body to the Body to be buried, if he shall think fit, before Registry of the give Certificate Death, and shall in such Case give a Certificate of his Order in thereof. writing under his Hand, according to the Form of Schedule (F) to this Ordinance annexed, to such Undertaker or other Person having Charge of the Funeral, which shall be delivered as aforesaid; and every Person who shall bury or perform any Funeral or any No Dead Body religious Service for the Burial of any Dead Body for which no to be buried Certificate shall have been duly made and delivered as aforesaid, Certificate of
ther by the Registrar General, Registrar or Coroner, and Registry or of who shall not within Seven Days give Notice thereof to the Inquest. Registrar General, shall forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars for every such Offence.
be buried and
without
Informant.
XII. Every Person by whom the Information contained in any Register to be Register of Birth or Death under this Ordinance shall have been signed by the given shall sign his Name, Description, and Place of Abode in the Register; and no Register of Birth or Death according to this Ordinance shall be given in Evidence which shall not be signed by some Person professing to be the Informant, and to be such Party as is herein required to give such Information to the Regis- trar General or Registrar.
Deaths to be
XIII. In the Months of January, April, July and October, on Certified Copies such Days as shall from Time to Time be appointed by the of Registers of Registrar General, every Registrar shall make and send to the Births and Registrar General on durable Materials, a true Copy, certified by sent Quarterly, him under his Hand, according to the Form of Schedule (D) to and the this Ordinance annexed, of all the Entries of Births and Deaths in Register Books the Register Book kept by him since the last Certificate, the first when filled to the Registrar of such Certificates to be given in the Month hereafter to be General. fixed by the Governor in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-two, and to contain all Entries made up to that Time; and the Registrar General shall verify the same, and if found to be correct shall certify the same under his Hand no Birth to be a true Copy; and if there shall have been or Death registered since the Delivery of the last Certificate, the Registrar shall certify the fact, and such Certificate shall be delivered to the Registrar General as aforesaid, and coun- tersigned by him; and each Registrar shall keep safely such Register Books as shall be placed under his Control, until each of the said Register Books shall be filled, and shall then deliver it to the Registrar General, to be kept by him with the Records of his Office.
Certificates
XIV. The Registrar General and every Registrar, who shall Searches may have the Keeping for the Time being of any Register Book be made, aud of Births or Deaths, shall at all reasonable Times allow Searches given. to be made of any Register Book in his Keeping, and the Registrar General shall give a Copy certified under his Hand of any Entry or Entries in the same, on Payment of the Fee hereinafter men- tioned; (that is to say) for every Search extending over a Period not less than One Year the Sum of Fifty Cents, and Twenty-five Cents additional for every additional Year, and the Sinn of One Dollar for every single Certificate.
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