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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH MARCH, 1896.

Searches may be made and certificates given.

(7 of 1872, s. 14.)

Indexes to be made at the Registrar General's Office, and persona allowed to search them. (Ibid, s. 15.)

(37 & 38 Vic. c. 88, s. 42.)

Certified cuples given at general register office to be sealed. (7 of 1872, s. 16.)

Fees under this Ordinamen to be

accounted for by Registrar General to Treasury, (Thiel, .17.)

Penalties for wilfully giving false information. (Thid, s. 19)

Penalty for not duly registering births and deaths or for losing or injuring tho rogletera. (Ibid, s. 19.)

Penalty for destroying as falsifying register Books. (Tid, 8, 20.)

the same, and if found to be correct shall certify the same under his haul to be a true copy, and if there shall have been no birth or death registered since the delivery of the last certificate, the registrar shall certify the fact, and such certifiente shall be delivered to the Registrar General as aforesaid, and countersigned by him; and each registrav shall koop safely such register books as shall be placed under his control, until each of the said register books shall be filled, and shall then deliver it to the Registrar General to be kept by him with the records of his office.

14. The Reglator General and every registrar, who shall have the kemping for the time being of any register book of birth or deaths, shall in recoguised office hours allow searches to be made of any register book in his keeping, and the Registrar General shall give a copy certified under his hand of any entry or entries in the same on payment of the fees hereinafter mentioned; that is to say,

for every search extending over a period not less than one year the sum of fifty cents, and twenty-five cents additional for every additional year, and the sum of one dollar for every single certificate.

15. The Registrar General shall cause indexes of the register books in his office to be made and kept with the other records of his office; and every person shall be entitled during recognised office hours to search the said indexes and to have a certified copy of any entry or entries in the said register books under the hand of the Registrar General on payment of the fees hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, for every general search the sum of two dollars, and for every particular search the sum of fifty cents, and for every such certified copy the sum of one dollar.

In this section the term "general search" shall mean a search during any number of successive hours not exceed- ing six, without stating the object of the search; aud

The term "particnlar search" shall mean a search over any period not exceeding five years for any given entry.

16. The Registrar General shall cause to be made a seal of the said register office, and shall cause to be scaled or stamped therewith all certified copies of entries given in the said office; and all certified copies of entries purporting to be scaled or stamped with the seal of the said register office shall be reecived as evidence of the birth or death to which the same relates, without any further or other proof of such entry; and no certified copy purporting to be given in the said office shall be of any fores or effect which is not scaled or stamped as aforesaid.

17. Every sum received under the provisions of this Ordinanco by or on account of the Registrar General shall be accounted for by or to him and paid by him into the Colonial Treasury.

18. Every person who shali wilfully make or cause to be made, for the purpose of being inserted in any register of birth or death, any falso statement touching any of the particulars herein required to be known and registered, shall be subject to the same paius and penalties as if he were guilty of perjury.

19. Every person who is charged with the duty of ro- gistering births or deaths, who shall rofuse or, without reasonable cause, omit to register any birth or death of which be shall have had duc notice as aforesaid, and every person having the custody of any register book, or certified copies thereof, or of any part thereof, who shall carelessly lose or injure the same, or carelessly allow the same to be injured whilst in his keeping, shall on summary conviction before a Police Magistrate be punishable with a fine not exeeding two hundred dollars for every such offence and le default of payment theroot with imprisonmout for a ferm net exeveding six months, with or with out hard labour. 20. (a). Every person who shall wilfully destroy or injure, or cause to be destroyed or injured, any such register book, or any part or certified copy of any part thereof, or shall falsely make or counterfeit, or cause to be falsely made or counterfeited, any part of any such register book or certified copy thereof, or shall wilfully insert or cause to be inserted in any register book, or certified copy thereof, any false entry of any birth or death, or shall wilfully give any falso certificate, or shall certify any writing to be a copy or extract of any register book, knowing the same register to be false in any part thereof, or shall forge or counterfeit