Section 17Part 0 — Registration of Births
Registration of a birth
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After the expiration of three months after the birth of any child, a Registrar shall not register such birth except as provided in this section; namely, in case the birth of any child has not been registered in accordance with this Act the Registrar may, after three and not later than twelve months after the birth, by notice in writing, require any of the persons required by this Act to give information concerning the birth to attend personally at the Registry within such time (not less than seven days after receipt of the notice, and not more than twelve months after the date of the birth) as may be specified in the notice, and make before that person and some Justice, or in default of a Justice some other respectable witness, a solemn declaration, according to the best of the declarant’s knowledge and belief, of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth, and sign the registration form and counterfoil in the presence of the Registrar and Justice or other witness; and upon any of the said persons attending before a Registrar and Justice or other witness whether in pursuance of a requisition or not, and making such a declaration as aforesaid, and giving information concerning the birth, the Registrar shall, then and there in the presence of such Justice or witness, register the birth according to the information of the declarant, and the Justice or witness before whom the declaration is made shall, as well as the Registrar and declarant, sign the entry of the birth.
After the expiration of twelve months after the birth of any child that birth may not be registered, except with the written authority of the Registrar-General for registering the same, and except in accordance with the prescribed rules, and the fact of such authority having been given shall be entered on the registration form and counterfoil. Such authority may not, however, be given by the Registrar-General after any child is ten years of age, unless the Registrar-General is satisfied by evidence that there were good and sufficient reasons to account for the delay in registration.
Whoever registers or causes to be registered the birth of any child in contravention of this section is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one hundred dollars.