Deaths Registration (Special Registers).
be received as evidence of the death to which the same relates without other or further proof of such entry.
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There shall be paid in respect of any matter for which a fee is prescribed under this Ordinance, the fees specified respectively in Part I of the Fourth Schedule.
10. Any person who having custody of the special register of deaths or certified copies thereof, or of any part thereof, carelessly loses or injures the same or carelessly allows the same to be injured whilst in his keeping shall be deemed to have committed a breach of the provisions of this Ordinance and upon summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.
Fourth Schedule. Part I.
Penalty for loss or injury of register.
11. Any person who wilfully destroys or injures, or causes to be destroyed or injured, any such register or any part or certified copy of any part thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor triable summarily and liable to imprisonment for two years.
12. With regard to the correction of errors in the special register of deaths, the following provisions shall have effect-
(a) no alteration in any such register shall be made except as authorized by this Ordinance;
(b) any clerical error which may be discovered in any such register shall, as soon as possible, be corrected by the Registrar, who shall place his initials in the margin opposite the entry in which such error has been discovered;
(c) an error of fact or substance in any such register may be corrected by entry in the margin (without any alteration of the original entry) by the Registrar on payment of the prescribed fee and on production to him by the person requiring such error to be corrected of a declaration in the prescribed form setting forth the nature of the error and the true facts of the case, and made 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.
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Fourth Schedule. Part II. Form 1.