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No. 1 Register (1934).

No. 2 Register (2634).

Ordianaco

No. 7 of LAG.

Ordipan.co

No. 21 of

1034.

Registrer Gegeral.

Special

Register

of Death.

Death

Bagisters

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(h) No. 1 Register (1984)" means a special register

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

() No. 2 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

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(*) "Ordinance No. 21 of 1984", means the Birtha and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1984,

(1) Registrar General' General of Births and Deaths.

meuns the Registrar

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

PART II.

GENERAL.

3. All the register books of deaths specified in Part I desced 1st and Part II of the First Schedule are hereby deemed to have

been permanently lost us from 26th December, 1941.

FUMA Bebedule

Register booka.

Second Schedule.

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 (1896) in Form No. 1 in the

Forma Nor. Second Schedule.

I & 2.

Third

Schedule. Forma Noa. 1 & 2

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

Schedule.

Schedule.

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

(d) No. 2 Register (1934) in Form No. 2 in the Third

Requirement 5. (1) Any person in possession of a Death Certificate of regists (1896) may require the Registrar General to register the death to which such certificate relates in the No. 1 Register (1896) and such death shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee.

tion la No. 1 Bagirtere.

(2) Any person in possession of a Death Certificate (1984) 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

fee.

of

Requirement

tion in No. 2 Registers.

any

6. (1) Any person who is unable to produce a Death of 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.

(8) No death shall be registered in the No. 2 Begister (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.

7. The Registrar General shall cause indexes of the Andeses and

Searches. 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 sealed or stamped with the seal or stamp of the General Register Office.

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 entries given in the said office,

antry ju de

(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 actified of such entry.

copy of

antry in

No. 1 Register (1886).

(3) Every entry and avery certified copy of an entry vidential in the No. 1 Register (1934) shall be of equivalent evidential value of value to that accorded to a Death Certificate (1934) by Section certihed 33 of Ordinance No. 21 of 1984.

entry in od

copy of

entry in

No. 1

Elegiebor (1034).

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

entry in se

Copy of

entry in

No. 8

Register

(1896)

and No. 2

Register

(1034),

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

Fourth

Acbadula Part 1.

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

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 suzamary 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 copy of any part thereof, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.