Section 16Part 0 — Registration of Births
Duty of Registrar as to births and registering same
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A Registrar shall inform themselves carefully of every birth which happens within that Registrar’s district, and upon receiving personally from the informant, at any time within three months from the date of the birth of any child or the finding of any living new-born child, information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth of such child, forthwith in the prescribed form and manner shall register the birth and the said particulars (if not previously registered), without fee or reward from the informant, except that if in pursuance of a written requisition that Registrar registers the same at the residence of the person making such requisition, or at the house in which the birth took place, that Registrar shall, unless the birth took place in a public institution, be entitled to the appointed fee.
Referenced By
- Section 31 — Registration of still births
Application of section 16 to still-births