Section 27Part 0 — Registration of Deaths
Duty of Registrar as to deaths and registering them
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A Registrar shall inform themselves carefully of every death which happens within that person’s district, and upon receiving personally from the informant, at any time within twelve months after the date of any death or of the finding of any dead body, information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death from any person required by this Act to give the same, forthwith in the prescribed form and manner to register the death and the said particulars (if not previously registered) without a 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 where the decreased died that Registrar is, unless the death took place in a public institution, entitled to the appointed fee.