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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOLER 16, 1931.

HONG KONG.

No. 26 of 1931.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of

1896, s. 3 and Regulations.

Ordinance

No. 1 of 1926.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 7 of 1896, s. 6.

Amendment

No. 7 of

16th October, 1931.

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to

the Registration of Births and Deaths.

[16th October, 1931.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may he cited as the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2.-(1) Section 3 (1) of the Births and Deaths Regis- tration Ordinance, 1896, is amended by the substitution of the words "Medical Department " for the words "Sani- tary Department”.

(2) Section 3 (2) of the said Ordinance is amended by the substitution of the words "Director of Medical and Sanitary Services" for the words "Head of the Sanitary Department".

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(3) Corresponding substitutions shall be made wherever the words Sanitary Department" or Head of the Sanitary Department occur in the Births and Deaths Registration Regulations made under sections 4 and 29 of the said Ordinance and published in Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925, under the Regulations Ordinance, 1926.

3. The following sub-section is added at the end of section 6 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinanec, 1896 :-

(3) In every case where information is given of the death of any citizen of the United States of America in the Colony, the Registrar shaif at once inform the Official Administrator of the fact, in order that the necessary information may be immediately forwarded to the nearest consular officer of the said United States.

4. Section 10 (2) of the Births and Deaths Registra-

of Ordinance tion Ordinance, 1896, is amended by the deletion of the words "for every year or part of a year that has elapsed since the birth

1896,

s. 10 (2).

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of 1896, s. 11.

5. Section II of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, is amended as follows :-

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() by the deletion of the words one dollar in the fourth line of sub-section (2) and by the substi- Intion therefor of the words "two dollars and fifty cents".