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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 24,

(2) having the custody of any register book or certified copies thereof, or of any part thereof, carelessly loses or injures the same, or carelessly allows the same to be injured whilst in his keeping,

shall be deemed to have committed a breach of the provisions of this Ordinance.

1934.

685

register book

25. Every person who wilfully destroys or injures, or Penalty for causes to be destroyed or injured, any such register book destroying or any part 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.

26. With regard to the correction of errors in registers Correction of births or deaths, the following provisions shall have of errors effect:-

(1) no alteration in any such register shall be made except as authorised by this Ordinance;

(2) any clerical error which may be discovered in any such register shall, as soon as possible, be corrected by a registrar, who shall place his initials in the margin opposite the entry in which such error has been discovered;

in register.

37 & 38 Vict. c. 88, s. 36.

Schedule.

(3) an error of fact or substance in any such register may be corrected by entry in the margin (without any alteration of the original entry) by a registrar on payment of the fee of one dollar and on production to him by the person requiring such error to be corrected of a declaration, according to Form No. 20 in the Second Second Schedule, setting forth the nature of the error and the true facts of the case, and made by two persons required by this Form Ordinance to give information concerning the birth or death with reference to which the error has been made, or, in default of such persons, then by two credible persons to the satisfaction of the registrar having knowledge of the truth of the case, and the registrar shall initial such marginal entry and shall add thereto the day and month and year when such correction is made; and

(4) where an error of fact or substance (other than an error relating to the cause of death) occurs in the information given to the Registrar General by a magistrate con- cerning a dead body upon which he has held an inquiry, or in respect of which he has issued a burial order, he may, if satisfied by evidence upon oath or statutory declaration that such error exists, certify under his hand to the Registrar General the nature of the error and the true facts of the case as ascertained by him on such evidence, and the error may thereupon be corrected by that officer in the register by entering in the margin (without any alteration of the original entry) the facts as so certified by such magistrate, and he shall initial such marginal entry and shall add thereto the day and month and year when such correction is made.

No. 20.

27. Except where otherwise specially provided by this Penalty. Ordinance, every person who commits any breach or infringement of any of the provisions of this Ordinance or fails to perforin any duty imposed upon him by this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.