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Register
when not
evidence,

Ch. 29. No.1.) Births and Deaths Regtstration.

(6) any clerical error which may from time to time be
discovered in any such register may be corrected by any
person authorised in that behalf by the Registrar
Gencral, subject to the prescribed rules;

(c) an error of fact or substance in any such register

may be corrected by entry in the margin (without anv
alteration of the original entry) by the officer having the
custody of the register, upon payment of the appointed
fee and upon production to him by the person requiring
such error to be corrected of a statutory declaration
setting forth the nature of the error and the true facts
of the case, and made by two persons requiring by this
Ordinance to give information concerning the birth or
death with reference to which the error has been made,
or in default of such persons then by two eredible
persons having knowledge of the truth of the case;

(d@) where an error of fact or substance (other than
an error relating to the cause of death) occurs in the
information given by a Coroner’s certificate concerning
a dead body upon which he has held an inquest, the
Coroner, if satisfied by evidence on oath or statutory
declaration that such error exists, may certify under
his hand to the officer having the custody of the
register in which such informi iion is entered the nature
of the error and the true facts of the case as ascertained
bv him on such evidence, and the error may thereupon
be corrected by such officer in the register by entering
in the margin (without any alteration of the original
entry) the facts as so certified by the Coroner.

Miscellaneous

36. (1) Anentry or certified copy of an entry of a birth or
death in a register or in a certified copy of such a register,
shall not be evidence of such birth or death, unless such
entry cither purports to be signed by some person professing
to be the informant and to be such a person as is required
by law at the date of such entry to give to the Registrar
information concerning such birth or death, or purports
to be made upon a certificate from a Coroner.

(2) When more than three months have intervened
between the day of the birth and the day of the registration