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

48. It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time
to cause to be paid from the Treasury such moneys as may
be required for the purpose of carrying this Ordinance into
effect, and every. sum received under the provisions of this
Ordinance by or on account of the Registrar General shall
be accounted for and paid by the Registrar General on the
expiration of cach month into the Treasury for the use of
the Colony.

49. If any person required or directed by this Ordinance
to give notice to any Registrar of any birth or of any deagh,
or to give any information when required so to do of any ef
the particulars hereby required to be known and registered
touching any child born or any person dead, shall omit or
refuse so to do within the time limited in that behalf, every
person so offending shall be Hable to a fine of twenty-four
dollars; and one moicty of such fine shall be paid to the
informer, and the other moiety shall be paid into the
Treasury for the use of the Colony.

50. Every Registrar who shall refuse or without
reasonable cause omit to register any birth or death of which
he shall have had due notice as aforesaid, and every person
having the custody of any register book or certified copy
thereof, or of any part thereof, who shall carelessly lose
or injure the same, or carelessly allow the same to be injured
whilst in his keeping, shall be liable to a fine of two hundred
and forty dollars.

51. Every person who shall wilfully destroy or injure, or
cause to be destroyed or injured, any such register book, or
any part or certified copy of any part thereof, shall be
guilty of felony.

52. The forms in the lirst Schedule hereto or forms as
nearly resembling the same as circumstances admit, shall
be used in all cases in which they are applicable, and
when so used shall be valid in law.

53. (1) It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, by
order, to alter from time to time all or any of the forms

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Funds,

Fees
received by
Reyistrar
General to be
paid into
Treasury.

Penalty for
neglecting to
give notices or
information.

Application
of penalty.

Penalty for
not duly
eTovistering,
pr losing or
injuring,
registers, etc.

Destroying
or injuring
Tegister
books.

Forms.

Power to
alter forms.