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(1) The next of kin of any person referred to in section
2, or where there is no next of kin living, any other person
having knowledge of such person, may apply in the manner
hereinafter provided, to have a certificate of death issued in
respect of such person.
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| (2) An application referred to in subsection (1) may at any time after expiry of six months from December 26, 2004, be made in the Form set out in the Second Schedule to this Act and shall be submitted along with an affidavit to the Grama Niladhari of the area within which such missing person was resident. The Grama Niladhari shall, immediately upon the receipt of such application, display a notice in his office calling for objections, if any, to the issue of a death certificate as applied for, within two weeks of the date of such notice. The Grama Niladhari shall, upon the expiry of the period for filing of objections, and after such inquiry as he deems fit and having obtained a report from the Officer in Charge of the Police Station of the area, authenticate the same and forward it along with his report as to the accuracy of the facts stated therein, to the Divisional Secretary of the division within which his area is situated. The Divisional Secretary shall endorse every such application and forward the same to the Registrar-General.
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| (3) Upon receipt of an application, duly authenticated
and endorsed in terms of subsection (2), the Registrar-General
shall, upon being satisfied on the documents presented, 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, and such appropriate
Registrar shall forthwith enter such particulars in such register
and sign the register in the appropriate place. |
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| (4) There shall be attached to the duplicate of the relevant
registration entry, the order of the Registrar-General made under
subsection (3), 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