2 Ch. 29. No.1.) Births and Deaths Registration.

CHAPTER 29. No. 1.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION,

Ordinances AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS

Ch.29. No.1-
1940. ° AND DEATHS.

No. 38-1947.

Commence- 16th December, 1847.)
ment.
Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Births and Deaths

Registration Ordinance.

Interpre- 2. In this Ordinance—

sation. Public Institution means a Prison, Industrial
School, Orphanage, Asylum, Hospital, and any pres-
cribed Public or Charitable Institution;
“house includes a Public Institution as above
defined ,
occupier ’”’ includes the Keeper, Master, Matron,
Superintendent, or other Chief Resident Officer of every
Public Institution, also the owner and the manager of
every estate and plantation in the Colony; and where
a house is let in separate apartments or lodgings
includes any person residing in such house who is the
person under whom such lodgings or separate apart-
ments are immediately held, or his agent ;

“relative ” includes a relative by marriage;
appointed fee’’ means the fee specified in the
Second Schedule to this Ordinance.

Definition of 3. Where reference is made in this Ordinance to a Regis-
and Super- t¥ar or Superintendent Registrar in connection with any
intendent = hirth or death, or any register, such reference shall (unless

Registrar. the contrary be expressed) be deemed to be made to the