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| (1) Where a Commission appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Act (chapter 393)or a Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry established under the Special Presidential Commissions law No. 7 of 1978 finds that a person has disappeared or is missing the next of kin of that person may apply to the Register-General or to the District Registrar of Birth and Deaths Of the district in which that person was last residing in the form Set out in the Schedule to this Act, to register the death of that Person under the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter (chapter 110)and to have issued to him, a Certificate of Death in respect of that person. Every such application shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the applicant in terms of section 4 and a certified copy of the finding of the Commission of Inquiry or Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry, as the case may be, relating to that person. |
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| (2) Upon receipt of an application under subsection (1), the District Registrar shall, notwithstanding anything to contrary in the preceding provisions of this Act, forthwith send to the Registrar-General a certificate under his hand, setting out the particulars of the death required to be registered under the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 110) as he has been able to ascertain from the application and the accompanying affidavit and finding. |
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| (3) Upon receipt of a certificate under subsection (2), 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 certificate. |
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| (4) Upon receipt of an order under subsection (3) directing him to enter the particulars relating to a 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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| (5) Every order made under subsection (3) shall be attached to the duplicate of the relevant registration entry and shall be sent together with the duplicate, by the Registrar, to the appropriate District Registrar for transmission to the Registrar-General for custody in his office. |
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| (6) Where the application under subsection (1) is made to the Registrar-General, the provisions of subsections (2) and (5) shall mutatis mutandis apply as if the reference in those section to the District Registrar is a reference to the Registrar- General. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts