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Registry of
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father of
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well as the Registrar and declarant, sign the entry of the
birth.

(2) After the expiration of twelve months next
after the birth of any child, that birth shall not be registered
except with the written authority of the Registrar General
for registering the same, and except in accordance with the
prescribed rules, and the fact of such authority having
been given shall be entered in the register.

(3) Every person who registers or causes to be
registered the birth of any child in contravention of this
section shall be able to a fine of ninety-six dollars.

19. (1) Any person required by this Ordinance to give
information concerning a birth, who removes before such
birth is registered out of the district in which such birth has
taken place, may, within three months after such birth,
give the information by making and signing in the presence
of the Registrar of the district in which he resides a
declaration in writing of the particulars required to be
registered concerning such birth; and such Registrar, on
payment of the appointed fee, shall receive and attest the
declaration and send the same to the Registrar of the
district in which the birth took place; and the last
mentioned Registrar shall, in the prescribed manner, enter
the birth in the register; ; and the entry so made shall be
deemed, for the purposes of this Ordinance, to have been
signed by the person who signed the declaration.

(2) A person making a declaration in pursuance of
this section in the case of any birth shall be deemed to have
complied with the provisions of this Ordinance as to giving
information concerning that birth, and with any requisition
of the Registrar made under this Ordinance within the said
three months to attend and give information concerning
that birth.

20. In the case of an illegitimate child, no person shall, as
father of such child, be required to give information under
this Ordinance concerning the birth of such child, and the
Registrar shall not enter in the register the name of any
person as father of such child, unless at the joint request
of the mother and of the person acknowledging himself to be