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Issue of certificate of

registration of death or of certificate of order for burial.

Form 10.

Form 11.

Form 12.

Burial of

deceased child as still-born, etc.

[✅ 1874 c. 88, s. 18.]

Form 13.

Form 14.

Notice where coffin contains more than one body.

[cf. 1874 c. 88, s. 19.]

Forms 15, 16 and 17.

Provisions as to certificates of cause of death. [cf. 1874 c. 88, s. 20.)

Form 18.

CAP. 174]

Births and Deaths Registration

[1986 Ed.

17. (1) A registrar, immediately on registering any death or as soon thereafter as he may be required to do so, shall, without any fee, deliver, either to the person giving information concerning the death or to the undertaker or other person having charge of the funeral, a certificate under his hand in the prescribed form, that such death has been duly registered, and such certificate shall be delivered by such undertaker or other person to the officer in charge of the police station for the district where the death was registered:

Provided that a coroner may order any body to be buried or cremated, if he thinks fit, before registration of the death, and shall in such case give a certificate of his order in writing under his hand in the prescribed form to the relative of the deceased or other person who causes the body to be buried or cremated or to such undertaker or other person having charge of the funeral, and such certificate shall be delivered by the recipient to such police officer, as afore- said. (Amended, 57 of 1967, Schedule)

(2) In addition to the certificates mentioned above, any person obtaining registration under section 14 shall be entitled at the time of registration to receive a free certificate in the prescribed form.

18. No person shall wilfully bury or procure to be buried the body of any deceased child as if it were still-born. No person shall bury or procure to be buried any still-born child, unless there is delivered to him either-

(a) a written certificate in the prescribed form that such child was not born alive, signed by a registered medical practi- tioner who was in attendance at the birth or has examined the body of such child; or

(b) a declaration in the prescribed form signed by some person who would, if the child had been born alive, have been required by this Ordinance to give information concerning the birth, to the effect that no medical practitioner was present at the birth, or that his certificate cannot be obtained, or that the child was not born alive; or

(c) an order of a coroner.

(Amended, 57 of 1967, Schedule)

19. When there is in the coffin in which any deceased person is brought for burial the body of any other deceased person or the body of a still-born child, the undertaker or other person who has charge of the funeral shall deliver to the officer in charge of the police station for the district where the death occurred or where such body was found a notice in writing, signed by such undertaker or other person, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief, with respect to each body, particulars in the prescribed form.

20. With respect to certificates of the cause of death, the following provisions shall have effect-

(a) the Registrar shall, on the application in writing of a registered medical practitioner, furnish him with a book of printed forms of certificates of death in the prescribed form;