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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S. 155.-The following bills are published for general information -

C.S.O. 4/4299/32.

[No. 19-5.4.32.-1.]

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 7 of 1896, s. 11.

Ordinance No. 26 of 1931

Schedule, Forms Nos. 5, 6.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 7 of

1896.

Schedule, Forms 5 & 6.

A BILL

INTITULED

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 be cited as the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1932

2. Sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 11 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, as amended by section 5 of the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1931, arc repealed and the following sub-sections are substituted therefor :-

(2) The Registrar shall thereupon, without erasure of the previous entry, forthwith enter in the register the name or names proposed to be substituted or added, and shall, if required, on payment of a fee of one dollar within forty-two days of the birth of the child or of two dollars and fifty cents after such forty-two days, issue a certificate according to Form No. 5 or Form No. 6 in the Schedule.

(3) For every such entry made within a period of forty- two days from the date of the birth no fee shall be paid. For every such entry made after such forty-two days but within a period of twelve months from the date of the birth a fee of two dollars and fifty cents shall be paid, and for every such entry made after the expiry of twelve months from the date of the birth a fee of five dollars shall be paid.

3. In Forms Nos. 5 and 6 in the Schedule to the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, as amended by section 10 of the Births and Deaths Amendment Ordinance, 1931, the words "Fee $2.50" are deleted and the words "Fee $2.50 (or $1 if issued within 42 days of the birth of the child)" are substituted therefor in each Form.