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Sending
certificates
etc., by post.

Particular.
to be
registered
concerning
birth or
death.

Certified
copies of
registers to
be sent
quarterly,
and register
books when
filled, to
Supt.
Registrar.
Form C.

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

any person, shall for each offence be liable, on summary
conviction, to a fine of forty-eight dollars, and, on convic-
tion on indictment, to a fine, or to imprisonment for two
years.

39. All notices, informations, declarations, certificates,
requisitions, returns, and other documents required or
authorised by this Ordinance to be delivered, sent, or given
to the Registrar General, a Superintendent Registrar, or a
Registrar, or by a Registrar to a person who is required to
give information concerning any birth or death, or who gives
notice of any death, may be sent by post, and the date at
which they would be delivered to the person to whom they
are sent in the ordinary course of post shall be deemed to be
the date at which they are received; and in proving such
sending, it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter was
properly addressed and put into the post.

40. The particulars required to be registered concerning a
birth or death shall be the particulars specified in forms A
and B respectively of the First Schedule, or as altered in
pursuance of this Ordinance.

41. Every Registrar shall make out an account four times
in every year of the number of births and deaths which he
shall have registered since the last quarterly account, and
the Superintendent Registrar shall verify and sign the same,
and the Accountant General shall pay to such Registrar, on
the certificate of the Registrar General, an allowance accord-
ing to the following scale; that is to say, for the first ten
entries of births and deaths in every year which he shall
have registered, whether the same be of births or deaths
indiscriminately, sixty cents each, and twenty-four cents for
every subsequent entry of births or deaths in each year.

42. In the months of April, July, October, and January,
on such days as shall from time to time be appointed by the
Registrar General, the Registrar of each district shall make
and deliver to the Superintendent Registrar of his district,
a true copy, on durable materials, certified by him under his
hand according to form C of the First Schedule, of all the