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Registry of
deaths.

[nformation
where death
occurs in
house.

Information
where death
does not
occur in
house.

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

 

 

 

rite of baptism shall forthwith give notice thereof to the
Registrar.

(2) Every minister or person who performs the rite
of baptism for which no certificate shall have been duly made
and delivered as aforesaid, and who shall not, within fourteen
days, give notice thereof to the Registrar, shall be liable toa
fine of twenty-four dollars.

Registration of deaths.

23. The death of every person dying in the Colony, and
the cause of such death, shall be registered by the Registrar
in the manner directed by this Ordinance.

24. When a person dies in a house, it shall be the duty of
the nearest relatives of the deceased present at the death,
or in attendance during the last illness of the deceased, and
in default of such relatives, of every other relative of the
deceased dwelling or being in the same district as the
deceased, and in default of such relatives, of each person
present at the death, and of the occupier of the house in
which, to his knowledge, the death took place, and in
default of the persons hereinbefore in this section mentioned,
of each inmate of such house, and of the person causing the
body of the deceased person to be buried, to give, to the
best of his knowledge and belief, to the Registrar, within
the five days next following the day of such death,
information of the particulars required to be registered
concerning such death, and in the presence of the Registrar
to sign the register

25. Where a person dies in a place which is not a house,
or a dead body is found elsewhere than in a house, it shall
be the duty of every relative of such deceased person having
knowledge of any of the particulars required to be registered
concerning the death, and in default of such relative, of
every person present at the death, and of any person finding,
and of any person taking charge of the body, and of the
person causing the body to be buried, to give to the
Registrar, within the five days next after the death or the
finding, such information of the particulars required to be