Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Registration Of Deaths (Temporary Provisions) Act (No. 17 of 2005)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.	   Short title and duration and extension of  the Act  
   2.	   Who may apply for the issue of a death certificate in case of persons missing due to terrorist activity & c,. and procedure  
   3.	   Additional material to be supplied  
   4.	   Display of application  
   5.	   Objections to registration  
   6.	   Registration of death  
   7.	   Appeal against refusal to issue certificate or issue of certificate  
   8.	   Special procedure relating to registration of deaths of persons in respect of whom there are findings by a Commission of Inquiry or a Special Presidential Commission of inquiry  
   9.	   Registrar-General to declare "National Disaster Areas"  
   10.	   Who may apply for the issue of a Death Certificate in case of persons believed to be dead as a result of any natural disaster or calamity, and procedure  
   11.	   Registration of deaths of foreign nationals  
   12.	   Provisions of the Evidence Ordinance not to apply  
   13.	   Procedure if person registered as dead is found to be alive  
   14.	   Offences  
   15.	   Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency  
   16.	   Interpretation