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BERMUDA
1949 : 30
REGISTRATION (BIRTHS
AND DEATHS) ACT 1949
ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS
1 Interpretation
2 Registrar-General; statu tory functions
3 What registers are to be kept; seal of
office
4 Searches and copies of entries
5 Registers as evidence of births and deaths
6 Notification of births
Registration of births
7 Still born child; new born child found
dead; regis tration of particulars
8 Child born alive; registra tion
9 Father of illegitimate child; registration
on re quest
10 Name of child altered; registration
Registration of deaths
11 Notification of deaths
12 Particulars of death; reg istration
13 Still born child; new born child found
exposed and dead; registration of par ticulars
Correction of errors in registers
14 Registrar-General may re quire information
15 Alterations and amend ments of entries in
regis ters
Burials
16 Burial certificate
17 Still born child; burial declaration
18 Prohibition of burial with out burial
certificate or burial declaration
Supplemental
19 Statistics
20 False information
21 Summary prosecution
22 Punishment where none provided
23 Fees of minister and medical practitioner
for certificates
FIRST SCHEDULE
Forms for registration of births and deaths
SECOND SCHEDULE
Correction of errors in registers
THIRD SCHEDULE
Form of burial certificates
FOURTH SCHEDULE
Fees of ministers and medical practitioners for certificates
[12 May 1949]
[preamble and
words of enactment omitted]
Interpretation
1 In this Act, unless the context
otherwise requires—
"midwife"
means a midwife registered under the Midwives Act 1949 [title 30 item 10];
"Minister"
means the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs;
"nursing
home" means a nursing home registered under the Public Health Act 1949 [title 11 item 1];
"prescribed
fee" means the fee prescribed in the Fourth Schedule or prescribed under
the Government Fees Act 1965 [title 15
item 18]
"register"
means any register required to be kept by the Regis trar-General under this
Act;
"ship" means
an ocean-going vessel, not being a vessel ordinarily employed within the waters
of Bermuda;
"statutory
functions" has the meaning given in section 2(1);
"still
birth" means the birth of a child which has issued forth from its mother
after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy,
and which did not at any time after
being completely expelled from its mother, breathe or show any other sign of
life, and "live
birth" and "still-born" shall be construed
accordingly.
Registrar-General;
statutory functions
2 (1) For
the purposes of this Act there shall be appointed a pub lic officer to be
Registrar-General who shall have the powers and dis
charge the duties conferred
or imposed upon the Registrar-General by or under this or any other Act.
(2) In the exercise of his statutory functions
the Registrar-Gen eral shall, save where otherwise expressly provided, be
subject to
the general directions and control of the Minister, but—
(a) nothing herein contained shall empower the
Minister to give special directions to the Registrar-General as to the exercise
of his
statutory functions in a particular case or series of cases; and
(b) where any statutory provision gives the
Registrar-Gen eral power to exercise any function acting in his discre tion
(which, for
the purposes of this section, shall in clude any functions in
relation to which the Registrar-General is given power to act as he
thinks fit,
or if satis fied that it is just so to do, or in relation to which by the use
of any other expression the Registrar-General
is given a discretion), in
exercising such function he will not be subject to the direction or control of
the Minister.
(3) In the exercise of his statutory functions
the Registrar-Gen eral shall be assisted by such number of public officers as
may from
time to time be authorized by the Governor.
[section 2
amended by 1998 : 20 effective 18 June 1998]
What registers
are to be kept; seal of office
3 (1) The
Registrar-General shall keep at his office—
(a) a book to be called the General Register of
Births, in which all live and still births in Bermuda shall be recorded as
hereinafter
in this Act provided;
(b) a book to be called the General Register of
Deaths, in which all deaths and still births in Bermuda shall be recorded as
hereinafter
in this Act provided;
(c) such other registers, notices, certificates,
declarations or other documents as he is required to keep by or under this Act;
(d) the district registers, returns or certificates
which were, in pursuance of any Act repealed by this Act, immedi ately before 1
January 1950 in the custody of any Dis trict Registrar; and
(e) a general index of the several registers.
(2) The entries in the several registers shall
be numbered in such manner as the Registrar-General may from time to time
decide.
(3) The Registrar-General shall have and use a
suitable seal of office.
Searches and
copies of entries
4 Any person during ordinary office
hours and upon payment to the Registrar-General of the prescribed fee may
search the entries in
any register and, upon payment of such additional fees or
composite fees as are prescribed therefor, may have delivered to him certified
under the hand and seal of the Registrar-General—
(a) in the case of any entry in any register, a
true copy of all such particulars recorded in such entry except such particulars
as
relate to the racial colour or origin of the person to whom such entry
relates; or
(b) in the case of any entry relating to the birth
of any per son, a certificate (hereinafter referred to as "a short cer tificate
of birth") in the Form F of the First Schedule containing such particulars
as are referred to in that form and which shall
be compiled from the
particulars recorded in the register or any other register kept by the
Registrar-General under any provision
of law.
Registers as
evidence of births and deaths
5 Every entry in any register, whether
made and kept under this Act or under any Act repealed by this Act, and every
copy of any such
entry purporting to be certified as a true copy under the hand
and seal of the Registrar-General, shall be received in all courts
and in all
proceed ings whatsoever as evidence of the birth or death to which the entry re lates.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS
Notification of
births
6 (1) Where
a child is born in Bermuda, whether born alive or
still-born, the
Registrar-General and the Chief Medical Officer shall be notified of the birth
in the manner hereinafter in this
section provided.
(2) Where the birth occurs in a hospital or
nursing home, the medical superintendent or other principal officer of the
hospital or nursing
home shall notify the Registrar-General and the Chief
Medical Officer.
(3) Where the birth does not occur in a hospital
or nursing home—
(a) then the medical practitioner attending the
birth; or
(b) where no medical practitioner attends, then the
midwife attending the birth; or
(c) where no medical practitioner or midwife
attends, then every person in attendance upon the mother at the time of, or
within twenty-four
hours after, the birth,
shall notify the
Registrar-General and the Chief Medical Officer.
(4) A person giving notice of a birth under this
section shall complete and sign a notice in Form A in the First Schedule and
shall
post or deliver the notice to the Registrar-General and the Chief Medical
Officer at their offices within forty-eight hours after
the birth.
(5) Where any new born child, whether living or
dead, is found exposed, it shall be the duty of the person finding the child,
and of
any person in whose charge the child or (if the child is dead) the body
of the child, may be placed, to notify the Registrar-General
in the manner pro vided
in subsection (4), giving such of the required particulars as are within his
knowledge within the following
times—
(a) in the case of a person finding the child or
the body, within forty-eight hours after finding the child or the body; and
(b) in the case of a person in whose charge the
child or the body is placed, within forty-eight hours after assuming charge of
the child
or the body.
(6) Any person who, without reasonable excuse,
the proof of which shall lie upon him, fails to comply with any provision of
this sec
tion commits an offence against this Act.
(7) A separate form shall be used in respect of
every child.
(8) The Registrar-General shall supply without
charge forms and addressed and stamped or franked covers to any medical practi tioner
or midwife residing or practising in Bermuda who applies therefor.
(9) The Registrar-General and the Chief Medical
Officer shall keep as part of the records of their offices all notices received
by them
under this section.
Still born
child; new born child found dead; registration of particu lars
7 The Registrar-General, upon receiving
notice in Form A of any child which was still-born or of any new born child
found exposed
and dead shall enter in the General Register of Births the
particulars con tained in the notice; and shall write in red ink in the
margin
opposite the entry the word "still-born" or, as the case may be, the
words "new born found dead".
Child born
alive; registration
8 (1) The
Registrar-General shall, as soon as may be after re ceiving any notice in
respect of a child born alive, send a form of notice
in Form B in the First
Schedule, together with an addressed and stamped or franked cover—
(a) to the father of the child; or
(b) if the father is dead, or if for any reason it
appears to the Registrar-General to be impracticable or inexpedient to send the
notice
to the father, or if the child is illegiti mate, then to the mother of
the child; or
(c) if both parents are dead or (in the case of a
child found exposed) cannot be found, or in the case of an illegiti mate child,
if
the mother is dead, then to the person having custody of the child.
(2) Where a person receives a form of notice as
provided in subsection (1) he shall complete and sign the form and shall return
it within
sixty days of the receipt thereof to the Registrar-General at his of fice.
and any person who fails to comply with this subsection
commits an offence
against this Act.
(3) On receiving a notice in Form B, the
Registrar-General—
(a) shall enter in the General Register of Births
the particu-lars contained in the notice; and
(b) shall keep the notice as part of the records of
his office.
(4) Where the particulars contained in a notice
in Form B are duly entered in the General Register of Births, the
Registrar-General
shall, upon demand made within the period of three months
after the birth by the person or persons who duly signed the said notice,
deliver to him or them free of charge a true copy of the entry certified under
the hand and seal of the Registrar-General.
Father of
illegitimate child; registration on request
9 (1) In
the case of an illegitimate child, no person shall, as the alleged father of
the child, be required to give information under
this Act concerning the birth
of the child.
(2) The Registrar-General shall not enter in the
General Regis ter of Births the name of any person as father of an illegitimate
child
ex cept at the joint request both of the mother (or, if the mother is
dead, then of the person having custody of the child) and
of the person ac knowledging
himself to be the father of the child; and in that event the person
acknowledging himself to be the
father shall sign the notice in Form B together
with the mother or (as the case may be) the person having custody of the child.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing
provisions of this section, where a court, acting in pursuance of any Act
making provision
for the maintenance of illegitimate children, adjudges any
person to be the putative father of a child—
(a) the court shall as soon as may be cause the
Registrar-General to be notified of the name of the putative father and of
sufficient
particulars to identify the child in question; and
(b) the Registrar-General shall, where the
particulars of the birth of the child in question are entered in the General
Register of
Births, add to those particulars the name of the putative father of
the child;
and where a court
subsequently annuls or varies any judgment as afore said, that court shall
cause the Registrar-General to be notified
of the annulment or variation; and
the Registrar-General shall strike out or, as the case may be, shall vary, the
entry in the
register accordingly.
Name of child
altered; registration
10 (1) Where
the birth of any child has been registered under this Act, and the name, if
any, by which the child was registered is altered,
or if the child was
registered without a name, then when a name is given to the child, the parent
or person having custody of the
child may deliver to the Registrar-General a
certificate to that effect in Form C or in Form D (whichever may be
appropriate) in
the First Schedule.
(2) A certificate delivered as aforesaid shall
be signed by the minister or person who performed the rite of baptism at which
the name
was given or altered, or, if the child is not baptized, by the parent
or per son having custody of the child or other person who
causes the giving or
the alteration of the name of the child.
(3) The Registrar-General, upon receiving a
certificate duly de livered under this section and upon payment to him of the
prescribed
fee—
(a) shall enter in the General Register of Births
the name mentioned in the certificate; and
(b) shall keep the certificate as part of the
records of his of fice.
(4) Every minister or person who performs the
rite of baptism shall on demand and on payment to him of the prescribed fee
complete and
deliver the certificate required by this section.
REGISTRATION OF DEATHS
Notification of
deaths
11 (1) Whenever
a person dies in Bermuda, then, subject to this section, the Registrar-General
shall be notified of the death —
(a) by a medical practitioner, except where an
inquest is held on the body of the deceased person;
(b) where an inquest is held on the body of the
deceased person, by the coroner holding the inquest.
(2) Upon the death of any person it shall be the
duty, according to the circumstances, of the person or persons hereinafter
mentioned
immediately to inform a medical practitioner, that is to say—
(a) it shall be the duty of each of the relatives
of the de ceased person who were present at his death or were in attendance
during
his last illness; or
(b) if no relatives were present or in attendance
as afore said, then it shall be the duty of each of the persons pre sent at his
death
or in attendance on him during his last illness, and it shall also be the
duty of the occupier of the house in which he died; or
(c) if no persons were present or in attendance as
aforesaid, then it shall be the duty of any person finding or taking charge of
the
body of the deceased person.
(3) The duty to inform a medical practitioner
imposed by sub section (2) shall be discharged as follows—
(a) if the deceased person was attended during his
last ill ness by a medical practitioner and it is practicable to inform him,
then
that medical practitioner shall be in formed; or
(b) if the deceased person was not attended during
his last illness by a medical practitioner, or if so attended it is not
practicable
to inform him, then some other medical practitioner shall be
informed.
(4) When a medical practitioner is informed of
the death of any person as hereinbefore provided—
(a) he shall, if he attended the deceased person
during his last illness, obtain as far as possible the requisite par ticulars
concerning
the death and shall notify the Regis trar-General in the manner
provided in subsection (7) ; or
(b) if he did not attend the deceased person during
his last illness, he shall as soon as practicable view and examine the body of
the
deceased person and shall obtain as far as possible the requisite
particulars concerning the death and shall notify the Registrar-General
in the
man ner provided in the said subsection (7); and any such medical practitioner
shall be entitled to receive out of the Consolidated
Fund the prescribed fee in
respect of any such view and examination as aforesaid:
Provided that in where
a medical practitioner who has been in formed of a death as aforesaid is
informed by or on behalf of a coroner
that an inquest is to be held upon the
body of the deceased person it shall not be necessary for the medical
practitioner to notify
the Registrar-General under this section.
(5) Subsections (1) to (4) shall have effect
with respect to the death of any person on board a ship or aircraft in Bermuda:
Provided that in any
such case the chief medical officer, or (if there is only one medical officer)
the medical officer, of the
ship or air craft shall (notwithstanding anything
in any other Act) be deemed for the purposes of this section to be a medical
practitioner.
(6) Where an inquest has been held on the body
of a deceased person the coroner holding the inquest shall notify the
Registrar-General
of the particulars of the death in accordance with the
Coroners Act 1938 [title 8 item 81].
(7) A medical practitioner or coroner giving
notice of a death under this section shall complete and sign a notice in Form E
in the
First Schedule and shall post or deliver the notice to the
Registrar-General at his office within the period hereinafter specified
in this
subsection, that is to say—
(a) where the notice is required to be sent by a
medical practitioner, within forty-eight hours after the death or, as the case
may
be, after any examination duly made in pursuance of subsection (4); or
(b) where the notice is required to be sent by a
coroner within the period specified by the Coroners Act 1938 [title 8 item 81].
(8) Any person who without reasonable excuse,
the proof of which shall lie upon him, fails to comply with any of the
foregoing provi
sions of this section commits an offence against this Act.
(9) The Minister responsible for health shall
from time to time prepare lists of causes of death, and shall cause such lists
to be pub
lished in the Gazette and to be circulated to all medical
practitioners and Coroners in Bermuda; and in giving notice of a death
under
this section, a medical practitioner or Coroner shall, in describing the
primary and secondary causes of death, conform as
nearly as may be to the nomen clature
of the said lists.
(10) The Registrar-General shall supply without
charge forms and addressed and stamped or franked covers to any medical practi tioner
or Coroner who applies therefor.
Particulars of
death; registration
12 (1) The
Registrar-General, upon receiving a notice in Form E under section 11—
(a) shall enter in the General Register of Deaths
the partic ulars contained in the notice; and
(b) shall keep the notice as part of the records of
his office.
(2) Where an inquest has been held on the body
of a deceased person, and the death of that person has previously been
registered, then
the particulars notified by the Coroner under section 11 shall
be added to the original entry in the General Register of Deaths
without any
alteration of the original entry.
Still born
child; new born child found exposed and dead; registration of particulars
13 The Registrar-General, upon receiving a
notice in Form A sent or delivered to him under section 6—
(a) in respect of the birth of a still-born child;
or
(b) in respect of a new born child found exposed
and dead,
shall enter in the
General Register of Deaths the particulars contained in the notice, and shall
write in red ink in the margin
opposite the entry the word
"still-born" or, as the case may be, the words "new born child
found exposed and dead".
CORRECTION OF ERRORS IN REGISTERS
Registrar-General
may require information
14 (1) The
Registrar-General may, for the purpose of completing or rectifying the
registration of any birth or death, require any person
who is required by this
Act or was required by any Act repealed by this Act to give any notice or
certificate relating to the birth
or death in question, or who may reasonably
be expected to have knowledge of the true facts re lating to the birth or
death, to
make any written declaration or to give any information within his
knowledge relating to the birth or death and to attend at his
office for the
purpose of making the declaration or giving the information.
(2) The Registrar-General may require any such
declaration or information to be made or given on oath; and the
Registrar-General is
hereby authorized to administer an oath for that purpose.
Alterations and
amendments of entries in registers
15 (1) No
alteration in any register shall be made except as autho rized by this section.
(2) Any clerical errors which may from time to
time be discov ered in any register may be corrected by the Registrar-General
or by any
person authorized by him in that behalf; and where any such
correction is made a note to that effect in Form G in the Second Schedule
shall
be inserted in the margin of the register and shall be signed by the Regis trar-General.
(3) Any error of fact or substance in any
register may be cor rected by the Registrar-General in any case where he is
satisfied as to
the truth of the correction; and any such correction shall be
made by entry in the margin in red ink (without any alteration of
the original
en try) and a note to that effect in Form H in the Second Schedule shall be
inserted in the margin of the register
and shall be signed by the Regis trar-General.
(4) Where a person applies for the correction of
an error of fact or substance the Registrar-General, if satisfied as to the
truth of
the cor rection, and upon payment to him of the prescribed fee, may
make the correction in the manner provided in subsection (3)
upon production to
him by the applicant of a sworn declaration in writing setting forth the nature
of the error and the true facts
of the case, and made and signed by a person
required to notify the Registrar-General, under section 8 or section 11, of the
birth
or death to which the application relates or by any two credible persons
having knowledge of the truth of the case. Such declaration
shall be sworn
before and subscribed by a Justice of the Peace or a Commissioner for taking
affidavits in the Supreme Court.
(5) If the Registrar-General refuses to make any
correction upon application made to him in that behalf in the manner provided
in subsection
(4), any person claiming interest therein may apply to the judge
in Chambers by originating summons, requiring the Registrar-General
to show
cause why such correction should not be made, and the judge may make such order
therein as appears to him just.
In this subsection
"the judge" means the Chief Justice, a Puisne Judge or any Assistant
Justice of the Supreme Court.
PROVISIONS RELATING TO BURIALS
Burial
certificate
16 (1) Any
medical practitioner who is required under section 11 to notify the
Registrar-General in respect of the death of any person
(unless an inquest is
to be held into the death) shall complete a burial certificate in Form l in the
Third Schedule, and shall
deliver the certifi cate to the undertaker or other
person in charge of the burial of the de ceased person within twenty-four hours
after his death.
(2) Any medical practitioner who without
reasonable excuse, the proof of which shall lie upon him, fails to comply with
subsection (1)
commits an offence against this Act.
(3) The Registrar-General shall supply without
charge forms of burial certificates to any medical practitioner who applies
therefor.
Still born
child; burial declaration
17 (1) This
section shall have effect with respect to the burial of a still-born child—
(a) where a medical practitioner was in attendance
at the birth he shall make a burial declaration to the effect that the child
was
not born alive;
(b) where a medical practitioner was not in
attendance at the birth, any other person required under section 6 to notify
the Registrar-General
of the still birth shall make a burial declaration to the
effect that no medical practi tioner was in attendance at the birth and
that
the child was not born alive.
(2) A burial declaration made in pursuance of
this section—
(a) shall be in writing and shall be signed by the
person making the declaration; and
(b) shall be delivered by the person making the
declaration to the undertaker or other person in charge of the burial of the
still-born
child within twenty-four hours after the still birth.
(3) Any person who without reasonable excuse,
the proof of which shall lie upon him, fails to comply with any of the
foregoing provi
sions of this section commits an offence against this Act.
Prohibition of
burial without burial certificate or burial declaration
18 (1) No
person shall bury, or shall cause or allow to be buried—
(a) the body of any deceased person, before there
has been produced to him a burial certificate as required by sec tion 16, or
(if any
inquest has been ordered or held on the body) an order of a coroner, in
respect of that de ceased person; or
(b) the body of any still-born child, before there
has been produced to him a burial declaration as required by sec tion 17 in
respect
of the still-born child.
(2) No person shall wilfully bury, or shall
cause or allow to be buried, the body of any deceased child as if it were a
still-born child.
(3) Any person who contravenes any of the
foregoing provisions of this section commits an offence against this Act:
Punishment on
summary conviction: a fine of $840.
SUPPLEMENTAL AND LEGAL PROVISIONS
Statistics
19 The Registrar-General shall, within
ninety days after the expira tion of each calendar year, compile for
publication in such form
and manner as the Minister may approve a summary of
the births and deaths which occurred during the year, together with a general
report on the increase or decrease of the population of Bermuda.
False
information
20 Any person—
(a) who, in connection with any requirement imposed
on him by or under this Act, makes any statement or decla ration or furnishes
any
information or makes any entry which he knows or has reasonable cause to
believe to be false in a material particular; or
(b) who attempts, procures, aids or abets the
commission of any such offence as aforesaid,
commits an offence
against this Act:
Punishment on
summary conviction: imprisonment for 6 months or a fine of $840 or both such
imprisonment and fine.
Punishment on
conviction on indictment: imprisonment for 2 years.
Summary
prosecution
21 Except as otherwise expressly provided
offences against this Act shall be prosecuted before a court of summary
jurisdiction.
Punishment
where none provided
22 Where a person commits an offence under
this Act for which no specific penalty is provided:
Punishment on
summary conviction: a fine of $336.
Fees of
minister and medical practitioner for certificates
23 The fees specified in the Fourth
Schedule shall be payable in re-
spect of the services and matters mentioned therein.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
Forms Relating to the Registration of Births and
Deaths
FORM A
Notice of Birth
Full names and
address of mother [blank]
Full names and
address of father) [blank]
Parish of birth [blank]
Date of birth [blank]
Sex of child [blank]
Racial colour of
child [blank]
Was the child born
alive? [blank]
Was the child born
in wedlock? [blank]
Medical
practitioner (if any) attending birth [blank]
Midwife (if any)
attending birth [blank]
Date [blank] day [blank] of [blank] 19 [blank].
Signature and
capacity of person making notification.
[Notes: This
form must be completed, signed and returned to the Regis trar-General,
Hamilton, within 48 hours after the birth, by the following
persons who are
required to do so in the order named, viz-medical su perintendent of hospital
or nursing home, medical practitioner
attending birth, midwife attending birth,
all persons attending birth.
Failure to forward this
form to the Registrar-General within the time required is an offence.]
FORM B
Notice of
Particulars of Birth
Date of birth [blank]
Parish of birth [blank]
Full names,
nationality and address of father* [blank]
Full names,
nationality and address of mother [blank]
Sex of child [blank]
Racial colour of
child [blank]
Is the child
living? [blank]
Was the child born
in wedlock? [blank]
Full names (or
intended names) of child [blank]
Date [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank].
Signature and capacity
of person
making notification+
*If the child is illegitimate, the father's name,
nationality, or address must not be filled in without his consent, in which
case
both he and the mother or person having custody of the child must sign
this form.
+This form must be completed, signed and returned
to the Registrar-General, Hamilton, by the person receiving the same, within
sixty
days of the receipt thereof. Failure to do so within the time required is
an of fence.
FORM C
Certificate of
Name Given in Baptism
I [blank] of [blank] in [blank] Parish
in Bermuda do hereby certify that on the [blank]
day of [blank] 19 [blank], I baptized by the name(s) of
[blank] a1 [blank] child produced to me as2 [blank]
of [blank]3 and
declared by the said [blank] to have
been born in the Parish of [blank] on
the. [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank]
Witness my hand,
this [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank].
Signature of
officiating minister.
FORM D
Certificate of
Name not Given in Baptism
I [blank] of [blank] in [blank] Parish
in Bermuda do hereby certify that the(a) [blank] child born on the [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank], in the
Parish of [blank] to(b) [blank]
and his wife, and registered with the Regis trar-General on the [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank], has,
without being baptized, received the name of [blank]
witness my hand,
this [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank]
Signature of person
giving the certificate.
FORM E
Notice of Death
1 Place of death — Parish [blank]
Name of Hospital (if
any) [blank]
House, or road [blank]
1a Date of death [blank]
2 Name of deceased-
Surname [blank]
Given name [blank]
(Block Letters)
3 Residence of deceased [blank]
4 Date of birth [blank]
Place of birth [blank]
5 Sex [blank]
6 Single, married, widowed or divorced [blank]
7 Nationality [blank]
8 Racial origin [blank]
9 Names of husband or wife of deceased [blank]
10 Trade, profession or occupation of
deceased
11 Date deceased last worked
12 Names of parents of deceased
Father [blank]
Mother [blank] (Maiden name)
13 Place of burial (or intended burial) [blank]
14 Cause of death
Immediate [blank]
(give disease, injury or complications, not the mode of dying)
due to [blank]
Duration (years/months)
Morbid conditions, if
any giving rise to immediate cause due to [blank]
Duration (years/months)
Other morbid
conditions, if any, contributing to death
Duration (years/months)
15 If
a woman, was the death associated with pregnancy? [blank]
16 Was there a surgical operation? [blank]
If so, date of
operation [blank]
Was there an autopsy? [blank]
If so, state findings [blank]
17 If the death was due to external causes
(violence) fill in the fol lowing: [blank]
Accident, suicide or
homicide * [blank]
Date of injury [blank]
Manner of injury [blank]
Nature of injury [blank]
Where caused [blank]
(Signature of medical
practitioner or coroner)
(Address)
*To be filled in by coroner only.
FORM F
Short Certificate
of Birth
Name and Surname [blank]
Sex [blank]
Date of Birth [blank]
Dated [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank].
Certified to have
been compiled from particulars recorded in registers kept by the
Registrar-General. Given at the Registry Office,
Hamilton, Bermuda, under the
seal and hand of the Registrar-General, the [blank] day of [blank] 19
[blank].
Registrar-General.
SECOND SCHEDULE
Correction of Errors in Registers
FORM G
Correction of
Clerical Error
Clerical error (or
omission) in column [blank] corrected
on the [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank], by [blank] on
behalf of the Registrar-General.
Registrar-General.
FORM H
Correction of
Error of Fact or Substance
In No [blank] column [blank] for [blank] read [blank]
Corrected on the [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank], by me.
*[on production of a
written declaration made by [blank]]
Registrar-General.
*Omit if not applicable.
THIRD SCHEDULE
Form of Burial Certificate
FORM I
Burial
Certificate
1 Name of deceased—
Surname [blank]
Given names [blank]
2 Sex [blank]
3 Age
[blank]
4 Residence of deceased [blank]
5 Occupation of deceased [blank]
6 Date of death [blank]
7 Cause of death [blank]
Date [blank] day of [blank] 19 [blank]
Signature of medical
practitioner.
[Note: This certificate must be produced
to the undertaker or other per son in charge of the burial of the deceased
person. To bury any de ceased person
before this certificate has been produced is an offence.]
FOURTH SCHEDULE
Fees
Fees
payable to a minister or other person performing the rites of baptism—
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For every certificate of baptism delivered as
provided by section 10: |
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Fees
payable to a medical practitioner—
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For attendance to examine a dead body as
provided by sec tion 11(4), to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund on
production of
a certificate signed by the medical practi tioner: |
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[this Act was brought into operation on 1 January 1950 by
notice published in Gazette #52 of
1949]
[Amended by:
1951 : 5
1951 : 78
1951 : 93
1952 : 11
1959 : 106
1967 : 192
1968 : 156
1970 : 390
1971 : 83
1976 : 7
1998 : 20]
1 Insert "male" or "female" as the case may be.
2 Insert "son" or "daughter" as the case may be.
3 In the case of an illegitimate child the name of the mother only should be given.
(a) Insert "male" or "female" as the case may be.
(b) In the case of an illegitimate child the name of the mother only should be given.
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