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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH MARCH, 1896.

or guardian or other person procuring such maine to be altered or given, forthwith deliver to such parcat, or guar- dian or other person as aforesaid a certificate according to the form of schedules (E) and (F) to this Ordinance annexed for which a fee of $1 shall be charged. No such altera- tion or addition as that contemplated in this section shall be made after the expiration of 12 mouths from the date of the registration of the birth except upon payment to the Registrar General or registrar of a foc of two dollars.

11. (a). When a person dies in a house after the com- menecment of this Ordinance, it shall be the duty of the nearest relatives of the deceased present at the death or in attendance during the last illness of the deceased, and in default of such relatives, of each person present at the death or in attendance during the last illness, and of the occupier of the house in which to his knowledge the death took place, and, in default of the persons hereinbefore in this suction mentioned of each innate of such house, and of the person causing the body of the deceased person to be buried, to give, to the best of his knowledge and belief, to the Registrar General or registrar, within the 48 hours (in which Sundays and Government holidays shall not be included) next following the time of such death, information of the particulars required to be registered concerning such death, and in the presence of the Registrar General or registrar to sign the register.

(b). Where a person dies in a place which is not a house, or a dead body is found elsewhere than in a house, it shall be the duty of every relative of such deceased person having knowledge of any of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death, and in default of such relative, of every person prescut at the death, and of any person finding, and of any person taking charge of the body and of the person causing the body to be buried, to give to the Magistrate appointed by the Governor to dis- charge the duties of Coroner within the 48 hours (in which Sundays and Government holidays shall not be included) next after the death or the finding, such information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death as the informant possesses, and such particulars shall be forthwith forwarded by the said Magistrate to the Registrar Generai who shall duly register the same.

(c). After the expiration of 12 months next after any death or after the finding of any dead body elsewhere than in a house, that death shall not be registered except with the consent of the Governor, and the fact of such consent having been given shall be entered in the register.

A fee of $5 shall be paid to the Registrar General in the case of the registration of the death of any person after the expiration of 12 months next after any such death or after the finding of any dead body elsewhere than in a house.

(d). Where an inquest is held on any dead body, any Magistrate, appointed by the Governor to discharge the duties of Coroner, shall inquire of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death, and such Magistrate shall send to the Registrar General, within 7 days next after the termination of the inquest, a certificate under his hand giving information concerning the death and specify- ing the said particulars, the cause of death and the time and place at which the inquest was held, and the Registrar General shall in the prescribed form and manner enter the death and particulars.

Where an inquest is held 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.

(e). No person, unless acting under the written sanction or direction of the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, shall remove or assist or attempt to remove or procure the remo- val of or bury any dead body until a certificate of death under section 12 of this Ordinance shall have been issued, or an order to bury shall have been obtained from the Magistrate discharging the duties of Coroner; provided always that where interment is urgent and it is not possible to promptly procure the issue of such a certificate or order, it shall be the duty of any person who may desire to remove or bury a dead body to report his desire at the nearest Police station when the inspector or other officer in charge shall issue forthwith a removal permit according to the form of schedule. (G) to this Ordinanes anexed.

Information concerning death where deceased dies in a house. (37 & 38 Vic. c. 88, s. 10.)

Information concerning death where deccased dles not in a housė, (Ibid, s. 11.)

Death not to be registered after twelve months. (Ibid, s. 15.)

Furnishing of Information by Coroner. (Žbid, s. 16.)

Restrictions

on removal or burial of dead

body.

(Nero.)

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