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registered concerning the death as the informant possesses,
and in the presence of the Registrar to sign the register.

26. If a person required to give information concerning
any death sends to the Registrar a written notice of the
occurrence of the death, accompanied by such medical
certificate of the cause of the death as is required by this
Ordinance to be delivered to a Registrar, the information
of the particulars required by this Ordinance to be registered
concerning the death need not be given within the said
five days, but shall, notwithstanding such notice, be given
within ten days next after the day of the death by the person
giving such notice or some other person required by this
Ordinance to give the information.

27. Where any death has, from the default of the person
required to give information concerning it, not been
registered, the Registrar may, at any time after the expira-
tion of ten days and within twelve months from the day of
such death or from the finding of the dead body elsewhere
than in a house, by notice in wniting, require any person
required by this Ordinance to give information concerning
such death 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 the notice, nor more than twelve months
after the death or finding of the dead body) as may be
specified in the notice, and to give the said information to
the best of the informant’s knowledge and belief, and to
sign the register in the presence of the Registrar; and it shall
be the duty of such person, unless the death is registered
before the expiration of the time specified in the requisition,
to comply with the requisition.

28. (1) After the expiration of twelve months next after
any death, or after the finding of the dead body elsewhere
than in a house, that death 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.

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Notice pre-
liminary to
information.

Requisition
by Registrar
of informa-
tion concern-
ing deaths
from quali-
fied infor-
mant,

Death not to
be registered
after twelve
months.