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Registration Of Deaths (Temporary provisions) Act (No. 58 of 1998) - Sect 7

Registration of death

7.
(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 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 she certificate under subsection (1), the Registrar-General shall, except in a case where he cancels a certificate in the exercise of 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 Birth and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 110), the particulars specified in such certificate.
(3) On receipt by a Registrar (2) directing him to enter the particulars the Register of Deaths maintained and Deaths Registration Act forthwith enter those particulars in such register in the appropriate place.
(4) Every written order under attached to the duplicate of the relevant shall be sent together with that the appropriate District Registrar Registrar-General for custody in his office.


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