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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH MARCH, 1896.

the seal of the register office, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.

(b). The Registrar General, when and as required by the Sanitary Board, shall transmit a return, certified under his hand to be a true return, of such of the particulars registered by him or by any registrar concerning any death or deaths as may from time to time be specified in writing by the said Board; and the said Board may supply a form of the prescribed character for the purpose of the return, and in that case the return shall be made in the form so supplied.

21. (c). With regard to the correction of errors in re- gisters of births or deaths, it shall be enacted as follows:

(1) No alteration in any such register shall be made except as authorized by this Ordinance. (2) Any clerical error which may from time to time be discovered in any such register shall, as soon as possible after being discovered, be corrected by the Registrar General or registrar who shall place his initials in the margin opposite the entry in which such error has been detected. (3) An error of fact or substance in any such register may be corrected by entry in the margin (with- out any alteration of the original entry) by the Registrar General upon payment of the fee of one dollar and upon production to him by the person requiring such error to be corrected of a declaration according to the form in schedule (R) to this Ordinance annexed setting forth the nature of the error and the true facts of the case, and made by two persous required by this Ordinance to give information concerning the birth or death with reference to which the error has been made, or in default of such persons then by two credible persons having knowledge of the truth of the case, and the Registrar General shall initial such marginal entry and shall add thereto the day and month and year when such correction shall be made.

(4) Where an error of fact or substance (other than an error relating to the cause of death) occurs in the information given by the certificate of a Magistrate appointed by the Governor to dis- charge the dutics of Coroner concerning a dead body upon which he has held an inquest, such Magistrate, if satisfied by evidence on oath or statutory declaration that such error exists, inay certify under his hand to the Registrar General the nature of the error and the true facts of the case as ascertained by him on such evidence, and the error may thereupon be cor- rected by the Registrar General in the register by entering in the margin (without any altera- tion of the original entry) the facts as so cer- tified by the said Magistrate and the Registrar General shall initial such marginal entry and shall add thereto the day and mouth and year when such correction shall be made.

22. Except where otherwise specially provided for by this Ordinance, any person committing any breach or infringement of any of the provisions contained in this Ordinance or in any regulation made thereunder or failing to perform any duty imposed upon him by this Ordinance or by any such Regulation, shall be punishable, for every such offence, upon summary conviction before a Police Magistrate, with a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and in default of payment thereof with imprisonment not exceeding six months with or without hard labour.

23. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council 10 frame such regulations as may be found necessary or desir- able for the due carrying into effect of the provisions of this Ordinance, and from time to time to alter or amend the forms given in the schedules hereto.

24. In this Ordinance, unless inconsistent with the context,-

The term, house," includes any building or structure

or ship or steamer or boat or cruft;

Returns of Ragistror General to Sanitary Board.

(37 & 38 Vic. c. 88, n. 28.)

Correction of errors in register. (Ibid, B. 36.)

Punishment for infringe- ment of Ordinance r Regulation.

Governor in Council may frame regulations and alter foruna.

(7 of 1872, s. 3.)

Interpreta tien.

(New.)

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