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No. 2 Register (19341.

No. 2 Bagister (2034).

Ordinanco

No. 7 of 1896.

Ordinance No. 21 of 1934.

Registrar Gequral.

Special

Register

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(h) **No. 1 Register (1934)'' means a special register

of deaths kept under the provisions of this Ordinance for the purpose of registering Death Certificates (1934).

(4) No. 3 Register (1934)" means a special register of deaths kept under the provisions of this Ordinance for the purpose of registering evidence other than a Death Certificate (1934) of previous registration in the Lost Register (1934).

( "Ordinance No. 7 of 1896", means the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896. į

(2) "Ordinance No. 21 of 1984', means the Birthe and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1934.

("Registrar General''

General of Births and Deaths.

mewas the Registrar

(m) Special Register of Deaths" means the No. 1 of Death Register (1896), or the No. 2 Register (1596), or the No. I Register (1934), or the No. 2 Begister (1934), as the context requires.

Death

Bagistera

PART II.

GENERAL.

3. All the register books of deaths specified in Part I deed lot and Part II of the First Schedule are hereby deemed to have

been permanently lost as from 26th December, 1941.

First Schedule

Register books.

Becond

Schedale. Forms Now. 1 & 3.

Third

Schedule. Forms Noe. 1 & 2

Requirement

tion in No. 1 Registers.

4. For the purposes of this Ordinance the Registrar General shall cause to be printed and kept in the General Register Office the following special register books of deaths---- (a) No. 1 Register (1898) in Form No. 1 in the

Second Schedule.

(b) No. 2 Register (1896) in Form No. 2 in the

Second Schedule.

Schedule.

Schedule.

(o) No. 1 Register (1934) in Form No. 1 in the Third

(d) No. 2 Register (1984) in Form No. 2 in the Third

5. (1) Any person in possession of a Death Certificate

of regist. (1896) may require the Registrar General to register the death to which such certificate relates in the No. 1 Begister (1806) and euch death shall be registered accordingly without payment

any fee.

RequiremBat

tion in No. 2

Registers.

of

(2) Any person in possession of a Death Certificate (1934) may require the Registrar General to register the death to which such certificate relates in the No. 1 Register (1934) and such death shall be registered accordingly without payment of fee.

any

6. (1) Any person who is unable to produce a Death at registra. Certificate (1896) but who by means of other evidence satisfies the Registrar General that the death to which such evidence relates was registered in the Lost Register (1896) may require the Registrar General to register the death in the No. 2 Register (1896) and such death shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee.

(2) Any person who is unable to produce a Death Certificate (1934) but who by means of other evidence satisfies the Registrar General that the death to which such evidence

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relates was registered in the Lost Register (1934) may require the Registrar General to register the death in the No. 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 (1898) or the No. 2 Register (1934) except with the consent of the Registrar General and the fact of such consent having been given shall be entered in any such register.

Searches.

7. The Registrar General shall cause indexes of the lades and Special Register of Deaths to be made, and any person shall be entitled on payment of the prescribed fee to require the Registrar General 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 General and Bealed or stamped with the seal or stamp of the General Register Office.

Seal.

8. (1) The Registrar General shall cause to be seated or Official stamped with the seal or stamp of the General Register Office all certified copies of entrica given in the said office,

(2) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry Evidential in the No. 1 Register (1896) shall be received as evidence of the value of death to which the same relates without other or further proof certified of such entry.

antry in or

copy of

antry in

No, I

Register [186].

(3) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry Evidential in the No. 1 Register (1934) shall be of equivalent evidential value of

entry la or value to that accorded to a Death Certificate (1984) by Section cartiled 23 of Ordinance No. 21 of 1984.

oopy of

entry to

No. 1

Registor (1934).

(4) No entry and no certified copy of any entry in Evidential the No. 2 Register (1896) or the No. 2 Register (1934) shall be valve of received as evidence of the death to which the same relates certified without other or further proof of such entry.

entry in or

copy of

entry in

No. 2 Roglater

(106)

Register

sed No. 2

(10354).

9. There shall be paid in respect of any matter for which Fas. a fee is prescribed under this Ordinance, the fees specified respectively in Part I of the Fourth Schedule.

Fourth

Sebadulo Part I.

10. Every person who having custody of the Special Pensity for Register of Deaths or certified copies thereof, or of any part or

injury of thereof, carelessly loses or injures the same or carelessly allows register. 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 not exceeding one thousand dollars.

register.

11. Every person who wilfully destroys or injures, or Penalty for causes to be destroyed or injured, any such register or any part destroying or certified сору of any part thereof, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.