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REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND ADOPTION (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS)

L.S.

HONG KONG

No. 38 of 1979

I assent.

Ord. No. 38/79

A109

MURRAY MACLEHOSE,

Governor.

7th June, 1979.

An Ordinance to amend certain Ordinance relating to the registration of

births and deaths and the adoption of children.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Registration of Births, Short title and Deaths and Adoption (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 1979 and

shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor

by notice in the Gazette.

commencement.

2. Section 3 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance is Replacement repealed and replaced by the following--

**Registrar,

3.

(1) The Governor may appoint-

staff and

gn ral register office.

(a)

First Schedule.

3.

a person to be the Registrar of Births and Deaths; (b) subject to subsection (2), such deputy registrars, district registrars, clerks and subordinate officers as may be necessary for the purposes of this Ordinance;

(c) a general register office for keeping registers of all

births and deaths occurring in Hong Kong.

the

(2) Unless and until otherwise directed by Governor, the officer in charge of each police station mentioned in the second column of the First Schedule shall be a district registrar of deaths for the district specified in relation to that police station in the first column of that Schedule.".

Section 2 in-

(a) the Births Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance;

(b) the Deaths Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance; and

(c) the Adoption Ordinance,

is amended in each case by deleting the definition of "general register office" and substituting the following-

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""general register office" means the general register office appointed (Cap. under section 3(1)(c) of the Births and Deaths Registration

174.)

Ordinance;".

of section 3.

(Cap. 174.)

Amendments

of section 2 of Cap. 175, 176 and 290.