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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH JULY, 1872.
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XIII. In the Months of January, April, July and October, on Certified Copies such Days as shall from Time to Time be appointed by the Regis- of Registers of trar General, every Deputy Registrar shall make and send to the Births and Registrar General on durable Materials, a true Copy, certified by sent quarterly, him under his Hand, according to the Form of Schedule () to and the this Ordinance annexed, of all the Entries of Births and Deaths in Register Books the Register Book kept by him since the last Certificate, the first when filled to of such Certificates to be given in the Month of
the Registrar in the
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Year One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-two, and to con- tain all Entries made up to that Time; and the Registrar General shall verify the same, and if found to be correct shall certify the same under his land to be a true Copy; and if there shall have been no Birth or Death_registered since the Delivery of the last Certificate, the Deputy Registrar shall certify the fact, and such Certificate shall be delivered to the Registrar General as aforesaid, and countersigned by him; and each Deputy Registrar shall keep 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.
XIV. The Registrar General and every Deputy Registrar, who Searches may shall have the Keeping for the Time being of any Register Book be made, and of Births or Deaths, shall at all reasonable Times allow Searches Certificates to be made of any Register Book in his Keeping, and shall give Persons
given by the a Copy certified under his Hand of any Entry or Entries in the keeping the same, on Payment of the Fee hereinafter mentioned; (that is to Registers. 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.
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XV. The Registrar General shall cause Indexes of the Register Indexes to be Books in his Office to be made and kept with the other Records of made at the his Office; and every Person shall be entitled at all reasonable Registrar Hours to search the said Indexes, and to have a certified Copy of office, and any Entry or Entries in the said Register Books under the Hand Persons of the Registrar General on Payment of the Fees hereinafter men- allowed to tioned; that is to say:--for every general Search the Sum of Two search them. Dollars, and for every particular Search the Sum of Fifty Cents, and for every such certified Copy the Sum of One Dollar.
XVI. The Registrar General shall cause to be made a Seal of Certified the said Register Office, and shall cause to be sealed or stamped Copies given at therewith all certified Copies of Entries given in the said Office; General and all certified Copies of Entries purporting to be sealed or to be sealed.
Register Office stamped with the Seal of the said Register Office shall be received 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 Force or Effect which is not sealed or stamped as aforesaid.
XVII. Every Sum received under the Provisions of this Ordi- Fees for nance by or on Account of the Registrar General shall be accounted Searches in for and paid by him into the Colonial Treasury.
the General Register Office to be accounted for to the Treasury.
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XVIII. Every Person who shall wilfully make or cause to be Penalties for made, for the Purpose of being inserted in any Register of Birth wilfully giving or Death, any False Statement touching any of the Particulars Information. herein required to be known and registered, shall be subject to the same Pains and Penalties as if he were guilty of Perjury.
XIX. Every Person who is charged with the Duty of register- Penalty for not ing Births or Deaths, who shall refuse or without reasonable Cause duly register-
ing Births and omit to register any Birth of which he shall have had due Notice Deaths or for as aforesaid, and every Person having the Custody of any Register losing or Book, or certified Copies thereof, or of any Part thereof, who shall injuring the carelessly lose or injure the same, or carelessly allow the same to Registers, be injured whilst in his Keeping, shall forfeit à Sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds for every such Offence.
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XX. Every Person who shall wilfully destroy or injure, or cause Penalty for to be destroyed or injured, any such Register Book, or any Part destroying or or certified Copy of any Part thereof, or shall falsely make or falsifying counterfeit, or cause to be falsely made or counterfeited, any Part Books. of any such Register Book or certified Copy thereof, or shall wil- fully insert or cause to be inserted in any Register Book, or certified Copy thereof any false Entry of any Birth, Death or Marriage, or shall wilfully give any false Certificate, or shall certify any Writing to be a Copy or Extract of any Register Book, know- ing the same Register to be false in any Part thereof, or shall forge or counterfeit the Seal of the Register Office, shall be guilty of Felony.
Errors may be
corrected.
XXI. No Person charged with the Duty of registering any Accidental Birth or Death, who shall discover any Error to have been com- mitted in the Form or Substance of any such Entry, shall be therefore liable to any of the Penalties aforesaid if within One
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