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| (1) On the expiry of the period of one month allowed
for the forwarding of objections to an application, the
Registrar-General or the District Registrar as the case may
be, shall consider the application together with the evidence
in support of the application and the objections, if any, and
the evidence tendered 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 forward to the Registrar-General a
Report under his hand setting out such of the particulars of
the death as is 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. |
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| (2) On receipt of the Report under subsection (1), the
Registrar-General shall, except in a case where he disallows
a Report in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by
section 7, 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 Report and issue in respect
of such person a Certificate of Death.
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| (3) On receipt by a Registrar of an order under subsection
(2) 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)
and issue in respect of such person a Certificate of Death, the
Registrar shall forthwith enter those particulars in such
Register and sign the Register in the appropriate place and
issue the Certificate of Death.
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| (4) There shall be attached to the duplicate of the relevant registration entry, the written order of the Registrar-General made under subsection (2) 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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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts