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Wednesday, August 2, 1972

LATE BIRTH REGISTRATIONS ADMISSIBLE IN EVIDENCE

Late entries of registration of birth will be admissible in

evidence without further proof under an amending bill introduced into

the Legislative Council this (Wednesday) afternoon.

Moving the second reading of the Births and Deaths Registration

(Amendment) Bill 1972, the Acting Attorney General, the Hon. G.R. Sneath,

said that. under the existing law, a 'registration of birth may be entered

in a post-register book that is, after 12 months from birth with the

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consent of the Registrar General.

He said since the beginning of this year, a system had been

operating which ensured, as far as was humanly possible, that these late

entries were in fact correct.

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This system, he added, involved consultation and checking with

"both the Director of Immigration and the Commissioner for Registration

"In the light of this new system, it is considered that entries

in the post-register book of births should, as with entries in the ordinary

register, be admissible in evidence with further proof," he said.

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