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(2) In case any living new-born child is found exposed, it shall be the duty of any person finding such child, and of any person in whose charge such child may be placed, to report such finding to a registrar, and within fourteen days to give, to the best of his knowledge and belief, such informa- tion of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth of such child as the informant possesses, and, in the presence of such registrar, to sign the register.

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9. (1) In every case where the information required Registration by sections 7 and 8 is given within fourteen days of the birth of births, of any child, exclusive of the day of birth, such birth shall of birth. be registered, without any fee, in the Birth Register Book.

(2) When such information is given after the expiration of the said fourteen days and within twelve months after the said birth, exclusive of the day of birth, the birth shall be registered, without any fee, in the Post Register Book of Births.

(3) No birth shall be registered after the expiry of twelve months from the date thereof except with the consent of the Registrar General; and the fact of such consent having been given shall be entered in the Post Register Book of Births in which such birth is registered.

(4) Any person obtaining registration of any birth under any sub-section of this section shall be entitled at the time of registration to receive free a certificate of such registration according to Form No. 3 of the Second Schedule.

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10. Notwithstanding the omission to report or furnish Duty of information as to any birth within 14 days-it shall be the duty registrar to of every registrar to procure by all means in his power the registration best and most accurate information respecting any birth which of births. may have occurred within his district and to cause the same to be registered as prescribed by Section 9.

Notice as to necessity tion.

for vaccina-

11.-(1) Every registrar shall, immediately after the re- gistration with him of the birth of any child, give a notice, in the Form No. 4 in the Second Schedule, to the parent or person reporting the birth, drawing attention to the require- Second ments of the Vaccination Ordinances.

(2) Every registrar shall keep a book in which he shall enter, in such form as the Registrar General directs, minutes of the notices of vaccination given by him.

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Schedule. Form No. 4.

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Vict.

12. In the case of an illegitimate child, no person shall, Saving for as father of such child, be required to give information father of cerning the birth of such child, and there shall not be entered child. in the register the name of any person as father of such child, 37 & 38 except at the joint request of the mother and of the person c. 88, s. 7. acknowledging himself to be the father, and such person shall in such case sign the register together with the mother. For the purposes of this Ordinance every child of every Chinese male shall be deemed to be a legitimate child, and such Chinese male shall be deemed to be the father of such child.