1964_BIRTHS_AND_DEATHS_REGISTRATION_ORDINANCE — Page 4

1986 Ed.]

Births and Deaths Registration

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"public institution" includes a prison, lock-up, reformatory school, certified industrial school, house of detention, mental hospital and hospital;

"Registrar" means the Registrar of Births and Deaths, and includes any deputy registrar of births and deaths; (Replaced, 9 of 1957, s. 2)

"registrar" includes the Registrar and any deputy registrar or district registrar of births and deaths. (Added, 9 of 1957, s. 2)

3. (1) The Governor may appoint-

(a) a person to be the Registrar of Births and Deaths;

(b) subject to subsection (2), such deputy registrars, district registrars, clerks and subordinate officers as may be necessary for the purposes of this Ordinance;

(c) a general register office for keeping registers of all births and deaths occurring in Hong Kong.

(2) Unless and until otherwise directed by the Governor, the officer in charge of each police station mentioned in the second column of the First Schedule shall be a district registrar of deaths for the district specified in relation to that police station in the first column of that Schedule.

(Replaced, 38 of 1979, s. 2)

4. (1) The Registrar shall cause to be printed and supplied to all register offices set out in the First Schedule register books of births and register books of deaths which shall be respectively in the prescribed form.

(2) The particulars required to be registered concerning any birth or death shall be the particulars specified in the said forms.

(3) Four separate register books shall be kept at each of the said registry offices-

(a) a birth register book for the normal registration of births;

(b) a death register book for the normal registration of deaths;

(c) a post register book of births for the late registration of births;

(d) a post register book of deaths for the late registration of deaths.

Entries of births and deaths shall, in the case of non-Chinese, be in the English language and, in the case of Chinese, shall be both in the English and the Chinese languages.

5. (1) The registrar at every register office, other than the general register office, shall cause to be sent to the general register office, once in each month or as directed by the Registrar, certified copies of all entries made in his register book during the preceding month.

Registrar, staff and general register office.

First Schedule.

Register books.

First Schedule.

Forms 1 and 2.

Certified copies of entries in district registers to be sent to general register office for record.