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Draft Bill.

No. S. 163.-The following bill is published for general information :-

C.S.O.

A BILL

[No. 2-7.2.31.—2.]

INTITULET)

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to

the Registration of Births and Deaths.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

1. This Ordinance may he cited as the Births and Short title. Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2.-(1) Section 3 (1) of the Births and Deaths Regis- Amendment tration Ordinance, 1896, is amended by the substitution of of Ordinance the words "Medical Department" for the words

"Sani- No. 7 of tary Department".

1896, s. 3 and Regulations.

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(2) Section 3 (2) of the said Ordinance is amended by the substitution of the words Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for the words "Head of the Sanitary, Department".

(3) Corresponding substitutions shall be made wherever the words "Sanitary Department" or "Head of the Sanitary Department occur in the Births and Deaths Registration Regulations made under sections 4 and 29 of the said Ordinance and published in Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925, under the Regulations Ordinance, 1926. Ordinance

No. 1 of 1926.

3. The following sub-section is added at the end of Amendment section 6 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, of Ordinance 1896:-

No. 7 of 1896,

(3) In every case where information is given 8. 6. of the death of any citizen of the United States of America in the Colony, the Registrar shall at once inform the Official Administrator of the fact, in order that the necessary information may he immediately forwarded to the nearest consular officer of the said United States.

4. Section 10 (2) of the Births and Deaths Registra- Amendment tion Ordinance, 1896, is amended by the deletion of the of Ordinance words "for every year or part of a year that has elapsed No. 7 of since the birth".

1896, s. 10 (2).

5. Section 18 of the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1896,.is amended by the deletion of the last of Ordinance eight lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the No. 7 of words :-

1896, s. 18.

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"stated is the true cause, and, in every case in which he is not satisfied in this regard, shall be his duty to institute or cause to be instituted immediate inquiries with a view to ascertaining the true cause of death ".

6.-(1) Form No. 2 in the Schedule to the Births and Amendment Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, is amended by the of Ordinance addition of the words "and nationality, so far as is No. 7 of known" after the word “occupation" in the sixth column. 1896,

Schedule. Forms 2 and

(2) The Notice on the back of the certificate in Form 16. No. 16 in the said Schedule is amandad he the inanation