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Births Registration (Special Registers)

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evidence of the birth to which the same relates without other or further proof of such entry.

(3) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in the No. 1 register (1934) shall be of equivalent evidential value to that accorded to a birth certificate (1934) by section 24 of the principal Ordinance.

(4) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in the No. 2 register (1872), the No. 2 register (1896) or the No. 2 register (1934) shall be received as proof that evidence (other than a certified and sealed copy of an entry of birth) to the satisfaction of the Registrar has been produced that the birth to which such entry or certified copy thereof relates was registered in the appropriate lost register. (Replaced, 17 of 1953, s. 2)

(Amended, 26 of 1949, s. 3)

9. There shall be paid in respect of any matter for which a fee is prescribed under this Ordinance, the fees specified respectively in Part I of the Fifth Schedule.

10. Any person who having custody of the special register of births 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 and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000.

11. [Repealed, 48 of 1972, s. 4}

Fees.

Fifth Schedule. Part I.

Penalty for loss or injury of register.

12. With regard to the correction of errors in the special register Correcting of of births, 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 the Regis- trar, 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 the Registrar on payment of the prescribed fee 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 credible persons to the satisfaction of the Registrar having knowl- edge of the truth of the case, and the Registrar shall

errors in register.

Fifth Schedule. Part II. Form 1.