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Registration of Deaths (Temporary Provisions) Act (No. 2 of 1995) - Sect 7

Registration of death

7.
(1) On the expiry of the period of one month allowed or the forwarding of objections to an application, the District Registrar shall consider the application together with the evidence in support of the application and objections, if any, and the evidence in support of such objections and after such inquiry as he may deem necessary, if satisfied, as to the truth of the matters stated in the application, allow such application and shall send to the Registrar-General a Certificate under his hand setting out such of the particulars of the death as are required to be registered, under the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 110) as he has been able to ascertain after such inquiry as aforesaid.
(2) On receipt of certificate under subsection (1) the Registrar-General shall, except in a case where he cancels a certificate in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 8, make order directing the appropriate Registrar to enter in the Register of Deaths maintained by such Registrar under the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 110) the particulars specified in such certificate.
(3) On receipt by a Registrar of an order under subsection (2) directing him to enter the particulars relating to death in the Register of Deaths maintained by him, under the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 110), the Registrar shall forthwith enter those particulars in such register and sign the register in the appropriate place.
(4) Every written order under subsection (2) shall be attached to the duplicate of the relevant registration entry and shall be sent, together with that duplicate, to the appropriate District Registrar for transmission to the Registrar-General for custody in his office.


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