1964_BIRTHS_AND_DEATHS_REGISTRATION_ORDINANCE — Page 12

1986 Ed.]

Births and Deaths Registration

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(b) no certified copy purporting to be given in the said office shall be of any force or effect unless it is sealed or stamped as aforesaid, and unless the entry to which it relates either purports to have been signed by some person professing to be the informant and to be such person as required by this Ordinance to give information to a registrar concerning such birth or death, or purports to have been made upon a certificate from a coroner or otherwise in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance, or, where more than 12 months have intervened between the day of a birth or death and the day of the registration of such birth or death, unless it purports to have been made with the consent and authority of the Registrar. (Amended, 57 of 1967, Schedule, and 53 of 1972, s. 2)

25. Any person who-

(a) being charged with the duty of registering births or deaths, refuses or, without reasonable excuse, omits to register any birth or death of which he has had due notice as aforesaid;

or

(b) having the custody of any register book or certified copies thereof, or of any part thereof, carelessly loses or injures the same, or carelessly allows the same to be injured whilst in his keeping,

shall be deemed to have committed a breach of the provisions of this Ordinance.

26. [Repealed, 48 of 1972, s. 4]

27. With regard to the correction of errors in registers of births or deaths, the following provisions shall have effect-

(a) no alteration in any such register shall be made except as authorized by this Ordinance;

(b) any clerical error which may be discovered in any such register shall, as soon as possible, be corrected by a registrar, who shall place his initials in the margin opposite the entry in which such error has been discovered;

(c) an error of fact or substance in any such register may be corrected by entry in the margin (without any alteration of the original entry) by a registrar on payment of the fee of $45 and on production to him by the person requiring such error to be corrected of a declaration in the prescribed form setting forth the nature of the error and the true facts of the case, and made by 2 persons required by this Ordinance to give information concerning the birth or death with reference to which the error has been made, or,

Penalty for not duly registering births and deaths.

Correction of errors in register. [cf. 1874 c. 88, s. 36.]

Form 19.