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NOTICE.

(to be indorsed on the back of the certificate).

By section 20 of the Births asd Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1934, it is enacted that whenever a registered medical practitioner has been in attendance during the last illness of a deceased person such practitioner shall sign and give to a qualified informant of the death a certificate of the cause of the death, and including a state- ment as to whether any, and if so what, anesthetic was administered during the said illness. The informant is bound to deliver the certificate to a registrar.

Persons qualified to be informants for the registration of the death

and to whom only this certificate should be given:-

1. A RELATIVE of the deceased, present at the death.

2. A RELATIVE of the deceased in attendance during the last illness.

3. A person present at the death.

4. A person in attendance during the last illness.

5. The occupier of the house in which the death occurred.

6. An inmate of the house in which the death occurred.

7. The person who caused the body to be buried.

Penalty for failing to give information within the 48 hours (in which general and public holidays as defined by the Holidays Ordinance, No. 5 of 1912, shall not be included) next following death is $200.

Informants must be prepared to state accurately to the registrar the following particulars:--

(1) The date and place of death;

(2) The full names and surname of deceased;

(3) The correct age of deceased; and

(4) The rank, profession, or occupation of deceased. (If deceased is a child or an unmarried person without occupation or property the full names and rank or profession of the father will be required (except in the case of illegitimate children); if a wife or widow, those of the husband or deceased husband].

FORM No. 20.

Declaration for correction of error in register.

[s. 26 (3).1

We, A.B. and C.D., hereby solemnly and sincerely declare that when the birth [or death] of E.F. was registered on the day of

19 the following errors of fact or substance occurred in the register, viz., [here set forth the error or errors].

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And we further solemnly and sincerely declare that the true facts of the case are as follows:-[here set forth the true facts].

Dated the

Before me,

day of

(Signed.)

19

1

A.B.

C.D.

(Signed.)

Justice of the peace.