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that he has registered or received notice of the death, as
the case may be.

(3) Every such order of the Coroner and certificate
of the Registrar shall be delivered to the person who buries
or performs any funeral or religious service for the burial
of the body of the deceased; and any person to whom such
order or certificate was given by the Coroner or Registrar
who fails so to deliver or cause to be delivered the same shall
be liable to a fine of ten dollars.

(4) The person who buries or performs any funeral or
religious service for the burial of any dead body, as to which
no order or certificate under this section is delivered to him,
shall, within seven days after the burial, give notice thereof
in writing to the Registrar, and if he fail so to do shall be
liable to a fine of forty-eight dollars.

31. (1) A person shall not wilfully bury or procure to be
buried the body of any deceased child as if it were still-
born.

(2) A person who has control over or ordinarily burice.
bodies in any burial ground shall not permit to be buried in
such burial ground the body of any deceased child as if it
were still-born, and shall not permit to be buried or bury in
such burial ground any still-born child before there is
delivered to him cither—

(a) a written certificate that such child was not born
alive, signed by a registered medical practitioner who
was in attendance at the birth or has examined the
body of such child; or

(6) a declaration signed by some person who would,
if the child had been born alive, have been required by
this Ordinance to give information concerning the
birth, to the effect that no registered medical practi-
tioner was present at the birth, or that his certificate
cannot be obtained, and that the child was not born
alive; or

(c) if there has been an inquest, an order of the
Coroner.

(3) Any person who acts in contravention of this
section shall be liable to a fine of forty-eight dollars,

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Burial of
deceasecl
children as
still-born,