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the body to be buried, to give to the officer in charge of the nearest police station, within twenty-four hours after the death or the finding, such information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death as the inform- ant possesses, and such particulars shall be forthwith forwarded by the said officer to a registrar.
(3) When an inquity is held by a magistrate into the death of any person the Magistrate holding the inquiry shall inquire of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death and shall send to the Registrar General within twenty- four hours after the termination of the inquiry, a certificate under his hand giving information concerning the death and specifying the said particulars and the time and place at which the inquiry was held and the Registrar General shall cause the deaths and particulars to be duly registered.
When an inquiry is held by a magistrate on any dead body no person shall with respect to such dead body or death be subject to any penalty for failing to give information in pursuance of any other provision of this Ordinance.
(4) After the expiration of 48 hours from any death or the finding of any dead body or the completion of an inquiry by a magistrate whichever is latest (exclusive of the time necessary for the journey and of any general or public holidays as defined by the Holidays Ordinance 1912) the death shall be registered in the Post Register book of deaths.
procure
15.—(1) Notwithstanding any omission to report, or Duty of furnish information as to any death within the time laid down registrars to in Section 14-it shall be the duty of every registrar to procure registration by all means in his power the best and most accurate inform- ation respecting any death which may have occurred within his district and cause the same to be registered.
of deaths.
U.S. citizens.
(2) In every case in which a registrar receives information Deaths of of the death in the Colony of any citizen of the United States of America, he shall at once inform the Official Administrator, through the Registrar General, of the fact, in order that the necessary information may be immediately forwarded to the nearest consular officer of the said United States.
c.f. Ordin- ance No. 2 of 1897,
s. 14 (2).
on removal
16.-(1) No person, unless acting under the written Restriction sanction or direction of a registrar, shall remove, or assist or of dead attempt to remove, or procure the removal of, or bury any body. dead body until a certificate of registration of death under section 17 has been issued, or an order to bury or cremate has been obtained from a magistrate: Provided always that where interment is urgent and it is not possible promptly to procure such certificate or order, it shall be the duty of any person who may desire to remove or bury a dead body to report the same at the nearest police station, when the inspector or other officer in charge may issue forthwith a permit according to Form No. 9 in the Second Schedule. The issue of such Second
Schedle. permit shall be forthwith reported to a registrar by the issuing officer, and shall not exonerate the persons required by this Form Ordinance to give information respecting the death of any person from giving the information required.
No. 9.
Schedule,
(2) No person shall remove, or assist or attempt to re- Second move, or procure the removal of a dead body from the Colony until he has obtained from a registrar a certificate according to Form No. 10 in the Second Schedule
Form
No. 10.
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