84 Ch. 29. No. 6.] Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

 

CHAPTER 29. No. 6.
REGISTERS OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES.

cranance _ AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE COPYING OF REGISTERS

Lage OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES AND TO DECLARE
THE LEGAL FORCE AND EFFECT OF SUCH COPIES.

Commence- [31st December, 1940.]

ment,

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Registers of
Births, Deaths and Marriages Ordinance.

Interpre- 2. In this Ordinance—

ue ‘““entry ’’ means an entry in a register, or in a copy of
a register or part of a register prepared under this
Ordinance, relating to any one birth, death or
marriage ;

“register ’’ does not include any register of marriages
for which provision is made in the Muslim Marriage and
Divorce Registration Ordinance, or Hindu Marriage
Ordinance, or for which provision is, or was, made in any
law now or heretofore in force in the Colony relating
to immigrants, but, subject thereto, means a register
of births, deaths or marriages for which provision is, or
was, made in any law now or heretofore in force in the
Colony, and includes any such register in the custody
of the Registrar General which consists of copies or
duplicates of original entries.

Powers of 3. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General—

Registrar

General to (a) to inspect, without payment of fee, any register
fe oseese in the custody of any other person in order to ascertain
sion of its condition,

registers.

(b) to take temporary possession of any such register