Section 12Part 0 — Registration of Births
Birth in public institution or private hospital
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In the case of any child born alive in any public institution or in any private hospital it is not necessary for the person in charge of such institution or private hospital to attend personally before a Registrar to give information of the particulars required to be registered concerning such birth or to sign the registration form and counterfoil; but the chief resident officer of any such institution and the person in charge of such private hospital shall, within fourteen days of the birth, send to the Registry a certificate in the prescribed form giving the particulars required to be registered concerning such birth, and thereupon the Registrar shall, if the birth has not been previously registered, register the same.
The parent or other person furnishing the particulars required to be registered shall subscribe that person’s signature to the said particulars on the certificate provided under subsection (1).
Referenced By
- Section 11 — Whose duty it is to inform Registrar of birth
Subject to section 12
- Section 12A — Power to exempt a person from the requirement to sign
Requirement to sign under section 12(1)