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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29тп AUGUST, 1896.

No. 16 of 1896.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend and consolidate the law relating to the registration of Births and Deaths.

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WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

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[11th August, 1896.]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,

as follows:-

1. This Ordinauce may be cited as The Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1895.

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2. The office of the Registrar General shall be General Register Office" for keeping a register of all births and deaths of the inhabitants of the Colony of Hongkong, and the Registrar General shall be the Chief Registrar of all such births and deaths. Any act that the Registrar General is authorised or required to do under this Ordinance may be done by the Assistant Registrar General or by any other officer in the Registrar General's Department specially appointed in writing for that purpose by the Registrar General.

3. District registers of births and deaths for Chinese shall be kept at such Police stations in the City of Vic- toria and at such other stations in the villages which shall have been already or may be hereafter declared by the Governor to be register offices, and the inspector, sergeant or other Police officer for the time being in charge of such station shall be a registrar of all births and deaths of Chinese occurring within the district, place or village where such Police station is situate.

Every Chinese required by this Ordinance to give inform- ation concerning a birth or a death shall give the inforn- ation to the registrar of the district in which the birth or death took place, subject, in the case of a birth, to the provisions of section 9 (c) of this Ordinance.

4. All registers of the births and deaths of the Chinese population of the Colony shall be kept in both the English and Chinese languages.

5. The Registrar General shall cause to be printed on account of the said Register Office a sufficient number of register books for making entries of all births and deaths of the inhabitants of the Colony of Hongkong according to the form of schedules (4) and (B) to this Ordinance annexed, and the said register books shall be of durable materials, and in them shall be printed upon each side of every leaf the heads of information herein required to be known and registered of births and deaths respectively; and every page of each such book shall be numbered pro- gressively from the beginning to the end, beginning with number one, and every place of entry shall be also numbered progressively from the beginning to the end of the book beginning with number one; and every entry shall be divided from the following entry by a printed line.

Short title.

Registrar Guberal to be Chief Registrar of births and deaths.

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District

registers to be established at certalu placCK,

Third, s. 20

Register m English and Chinese, (Ibid, s. 3.)

Hegister, book to be provided (Ibid, 8, 4.)

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