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

 

for the purpose of exercising the powers and performing
the duties conferred and imposed upon him by this
Ordinance.

4. (1) Whenever, in the opinion of the Registrar General,
the whole or any part of any register is, or is likely to
become, unserviceable by reason of its age or of damage or
otherwise, the Registrar General, with the approval of the
Governor in Council, may cause a copy of such register or
part thereof, as the case may be, to be prepared.

(2) If any entry, or part of an entry, in the register is
illegible the copy shall be completed, as far as possible, from
any corresponding entry in any other register.

(3) All copies prepared under this section shall be
checked by such persons and in such manner as the Registrar
General shall direct.

5. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, with the
permission of the Governor in Council
(a) to destroy the whole or any part of any register
which, in the opinion of the Registrar General, is
unserviceable ;

(b) to cause any copy prepared in accordance with
the preceding section to be bound as a new register,
or to be substituted in an existing register for any part
thereof which he is authorised in accordance with this
section to destroy.

 

6. (1) Whenever, in accordance with the provisions of this
Ordinance, copies of a register, or of any part thereof, have
been prepared checked and bound as a new register, the
Registrar General shall endorse in such new register a
certificate substantially in form A in the Schedule hereto.

(2) Whenever, in accordance with the provisions of
this Ordinance copies of any part of a register have been
prepared checked and substituted in such register, the
Registrar General shall endorse in such register a certificate
substantially in form B in the Schedule hereto.

(3) The Registrar General shall sign and date every
certificate endorsed by him under this section.

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Preparation
fo copies of
Tegisters.

Powers of
Registrar
General in
relation to
registers and
copies.

Certificates
of Registrar
General.