Section 13Part 0 — Registration of Births
Power of Registrar to require persons to attend
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Where a birth has, from the default of the parents or other persons required to give information concerning it, not been duly registered, the Registrar may, at any time after the end of forty-two days from such birth, by notice in writing, require any of the persons required by this Act to give information concerning such birth to attend personally at the Registry, or at the District Registry, within such time (not less than seven days after the receipt of such notice and not more than three months from the date of the birth) as may be specified in such notice, and to give information to the best of such person’s knowledge and belief of the particulars required to be registered concerning such birth and to sign the registration form and counterfoil in the presence of the Registrar and such person shall, unless the birth is registered before the expiration of the time specified in such requisition, comply with such requisition.
Referenced By
- Section 31 — Registration of still births
Application of section 13 to still-births