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17.—(1) A registrar, immediately on registering any Issue of death or as soon thereafter as he may be required to do so, of registra- shall, without any fee, deliver, either to the person giving tion of information concerning the death or to the undertaker or other death or of person having charge of the funeral, a certificate under his of order hand, according to Form No. 11 in the Second Schedule, that for burial. such death has been duly registered, and such certificate shall Second be delivered by such undertaker or other person to the Form officer in charge of the police station for the district where No. 11. the death was registered: Provided always that any magistrate may order any body to be buried or cremated, if he thinks fit, before registration of the death, and shall in such case give a certificate of his order in writing under his hand, according to Form No. 12 in the Second Schedule, to the Second relative of the deceased or other person who causes the body Form to be buried or cremated or to such undertaker or other No. 12. person having charge of the funeral, and such certificate shall be delivered by the recipient to such police officer, as aforesaid.

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(2) a declaration, according to Form No. 15 in the Second person obtaining registration under section 14 shall be entitled at the time of registration to receive a free certificate in Form Second No. 13 in the Second Schedule.

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Form No. 13.

deceased

18. No person shall wilfully bury or procure to be buried Burial of the body of any deceased child as if it were still-born. No child as person shall bury or procure to be buried any still-born child, still-born, unless there is delivered to him either-

(1) a written certificate, according to Form No. 14 in the Second Schedule, that such child was not born alive, signed by a registered medical practitioner who was in attendance at the birth or has examined the body of such child; or

(2) In addition to the certificates mentioned above, any Schedule, signed by some person who would, if the child had been born alive, have been required by this Ordinance to give information concerning the birth, to the effect that no medical practitioner was present at the birth, or that his certificate cannot be obtained, or that the child was not born alive; or

(3) an order of a magistrate.

etc.

37 & 38 Vict. c. 88, s. 18.

Second Schedule.

Forms Nos. 14 and 15.

coffin con-

body.

19. When there is in the coffin in which any deceased Notice where person is brought for burial the body of any other deceased tains more person or the body of a still-born child, the undertaker or other than one person who has charge of the funeral shall deliver to the officer 37 & 38 Vict. in charge of the police station for the district where the death c. 88, s. 19. occurred or where such body was found a notice in writing, signed by such undertaker or other person, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief, with respect to each body, particulars according to forms Nos. 16, 17 and 18 in the Second Second Schedule.

20. With respect to certificates of the cause of death, the following provisions shall have effect:-

Schedule.

Forms Nos. 16, 17 and 18.

Provisions as to certificates of cause of death.

37 & 38 Vict. c. 88, s. 20.