CAP. 175]
Requirement of registration in No. 2 registers.
Indexes and searches.
Official seal and evidential value of registers.
Births Registration (Special Registers)
[1974 Ed.
(2) Any person in possession of a birth certificate (1896) may require the Registrar to register the birth to which such certificate relates in the No. 1 register (1896) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee.
(3) Any person in possession of a birth certificate (1934) may require the Registrar to register the birth to which such certificate relates in the No. 1 register (1934) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee.
(Amended, 26 of 1949, s. 3)
6. (1) Any person who is unable to produce a birth certificate (1872) but who by means of other evidence satisfies the Registrar that his birth was registered in the lost register (1872) may require the Registrar to register his birth in the No. 2 register (1872) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee.
(2) Any person who is unable to produce a birth certificate (1896) but who by means of other evidence satisfies the Registrar that his birth was registered in the lost register (1896) may require the Registrar to register his birth in the No. 2 register (1896) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee.
(3) Any person who is unable to produce a birth certificate (1934) but who by means of other evidence satisfies the Registrar that his birth was registered in the lost register (1934) may require the Registrar to register his birth in the No. 2 register (1934) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee.
(4) No birth shall be registered in the No. 2 register (1872), the No. 2 register (1896) or the No. 2 register (1934) except with the consent of the Registrar and the fact of such consent having been given shall be entered in any such register.
7.
(Amended, 26 of 1949, s. 3)
The Registrar shall cause indexes of the special register of births to be made, and any person shall be entitled on payment of the prescribed fee to require the Registrar to cause a search to be made of such indexes and register and to receive a copy of any entry in the said register certified under the hand of the Registrar and sealed or stamped with the seal or stamp of the general register office. (Amended, 26 of 1949, s. 3)
8. (1) The Registrar shall cause to be sealed or stamped with the seal or stamp of the general register office all certified copies of entries given in the said office.
(2) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in the No. 1 register (1872) and in the No. 1 register (1896) shall be received as
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