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a National Disaster Area under section 9 ; or
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| | (b) who have been resident within any other area but
was at the time of the occurrence of such natural
disaster or calamity known to have gone to or to
have been within any area declared to be a National
Disaster Area under section 9,
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| (2) Every such application shall be made to the Grama
Niladhari of the area within which such person, whose death
is sought to be registered, was habitually resident.
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| (3) Every such application shall be submitted in any form
whatsoever, containing wherever possible at least some of
the information set out in the Schedule hereto, which
information would as far as practicable be a description of
the person whose death is sought to be registered. Every such
application shall be accompanied by an Affidavit in support
of such facts. The Grama Niladhari shall as soon as possible
upon the receipt of such application, and after such inquiry
as he deems necessary, recommend the same and forward it
along with a report certifying to the best of his knowledge
the accuracy of the facts stated therein, to the Divisional
Secretary of the division within which his Division is situated.
The Divisional Secretary shall endorse every such application
and forward the same to the Registrar-General.
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| (4) Upon receipt of an application under subsection (2),
duly recommended and endorsed in terms of the provisions
of subsection (3), the Registrar-General shall make order
directing the appropriate Registrar to register in the Register
of Deaths maintained by such Registrar under the Births and
Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 110), the particulars
specified in such application and issue in respect of such
person, a Certificate of Death.
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| (5) Upon receipt of an order under subsection (4) directing
him to enter the particulars relating to the relevant death in
the Register of Deaths maintained by him under the Births
and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 110), the Registrar shall
forthwith enter such particulars in such Register and sign the
Register in the appropriate place.
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| (6) There shall be attached to the duplicate of the relevant registration entry, the written order of the Registrar-General made under subsection (4) and such duplicate and order shall be sent together by the Registrar to the appropriate District Registrar for transmission to the Registrar-General for custody in his office. |
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| (7) Where the application under subsection (1) is made directly to the Registrar-General, the provisions of subsections (2) to (6) shall mutatis mutandis apply as if the reference in those sections to the District Registrar is a reference to the Registrar-General. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts