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deceased person, a medical certificate of the cause of
death need not be given to the Registrar, but the
certificate of the finding of the Coroner shall be
sufficient ;

(ec) where by reason of inability to obtain the services
of a medical practitioner to view a dead body and to
certify as in this section required, the Warden, Police
or Ward Officer, Schoolmaster or other of the func-
tionaries mentioned in this section may issue a certifi-
cate for the burial of such deceased person;

(f) if any person to whom a medical certificate is
given by a registered medical practitioner in pursuance
of this section fails to deliver that certificate to the
Registrar, he shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars.

33. Every Superintendent Registrar and Registrar res-
pectively shall be entitled to the fees specified in the Second
Schedule hereto, and every such fce shall be paid to him by
the persons and on the occasions pointed out in such
Schedule and may be recovered as a debt due to him, and,
subject to the prescribed rules, he may refuse to comply
with any application voluntarily made to him until the fee
is paid.

34. (1) Every Registrar, when and as required by the
Director of Medical Services for the purposes of the Board
of Health, shall transmit by post or otherwise a return,
certified under the hand of such Registrar to be a true
return, of such of the particulars registered by him con-
cerning any death as may be specified in the requisition of
the Director of Medical Services.

(2) The Director of Medical Services may supply a
form of the prescribed character for the purposes of the
return, and in that case the return shall be made in the form
so supplied.

Correction of errors.

35. With regard to the correction of errors in registers of

births and deaths, the following provisions shall have
effect —

(a) no alteration in any such register shall be made
except as authorised by this Ordinance;

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Fees.

Second
Schedule.

Returns of
Registrars to
Director of
Medical
Services.

Correction of
errors in
registers.