Registrars
to inform
themselves
of all births
and deaths.

Information
concerning
birth to be
given to
Registrar
within

42 days.

Requisition
by Registrar
of informa-
tion after

42 days.

Ch. 29. No. 1.] Births and Deaths Registration.

books shall be numbered progressively from the beginning to
the end, beginning with number one; and every place of
entry shall be also numbered progressively from the begin-
ning to the end of the book, beginning with number one;
and every entry shall be divided from the following entry
by a printed line.

14. Every Registrar shall be authorised, and is hereby
required, to inform himself carefully of every birth and
every death which shall happen in his district, and to learn
and register, as soon after the event as conveniently may be
done, in one of the said books, the particulars required to
be registered according to the said forms A and B res-
pectively, touching every such birth or every such death, as
the case may be, which shall not have been already regis-
tered, every such entry being made in order from the
beginning to the end of the book.

Registration of births.

15. In the case of every child born alive, it shall be the
duty of the father and mother of the child, and in default
of the father and mother, of the occupier of the house or
tenement in which, or the person in charge of the plantation
or estate on which, the child is born, and of each person
present at the birth, and of the person having charge of the
child, to give to the Registrar, within forty-two days next
after such birth, information of the particulars required to
be registered concerning such birth, and in the presence of
the Registrar to sign the register.

16. Where a birth has, from the default of the parents or
other persons required to give information concerning it, not
been duly registered, the Registrar may, at any time after
the end of forty-two days from such birth, by notice in
writing, require any of the persons required by this Ordin-
ance to give information concerning such birth to attend
personally at the Registrar’s office, or at any other place
appointed by the Registrar within his district, within such
time (not less than seven days after the receipt of such
notice, and not more than three months from the date of the
birth) as may be specified in such notice, and to give
information, to the best of such person’s knowledge and