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Indexes and searches.
Official seal and evidential value of registers.
Fees.
Fourth Schedule. Part 1.
Penalty for loss or injury of register.
Deaths Registration (Special Registers)
[1984 Ed.
(2) Any person who is unable to produce a death certificate (1934) but who by means of other evidence satisfies the Registrar that the death to which such evidence relates was registered in the lost register (1934) may require the Registrar to register the death in the No. 2 register (1934) and such death shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee.
(3) No death shall be registered in 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.
(Amended, 26 of 1949, s. 3)
7. The Registrar shall cause indexes of the special register of deaths 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 (1896) shall be received as evidence of the death to which the same relates without other or further proof of such entry.
(3) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in the No. 1 register (1934) shall be of equivalent evidential value to that accorded to a death certificate (1934) by section 24 of the principal Ordinance.
(4) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in the No. 2 register (1896) or the No. 2 register (1934) shall be received as proof that evidence (other than a certified and sealed copy of an entry of death) to the satisfaction of the Registrar has been produced that the death to which such entry or certified copy thereof relates was registered in the appropriate lost register.
(Replaced, 18 of 1953, s. 2)
(Amended, 26 of 1949, s. 3)
9. 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 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000.
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