129. The Minister may make regulations providing for the recording of births and deaths occurring in ships registered in Ceylon, and of deaths (wherever occurring) of officers and seamen employed in such ships, and without prejudice to the generality of such powers, may make regulations providing for-
| (a) requiring the master of any such ship to record any such birth or death and to send a return thereof to a Shipping Officer or other officer or authority; |
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| (b) requiring the master of any such ship to notify any such death to such person (if any) as the deceased may have named to him as his next of kin; |
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| (c) requiring the transmission of returns by Shipping Officers and other officers and authorities to such authority as may be prescribed; |
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| (d) the preservation and filing in a register of such information as may be desirable for the purpose of ensuring the completeness and correctness of a register of such births and deaths; |
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| (e) any incidental or supplementary matters for which the Minister may think it expedient to provide for the purposes of the regulations. |
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