DEATHS REGISTRATION (SPECIAL REGISTERS) ORDINANCE

DEATHS REGISTRATION (SPECIAL REGISTERS) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 176.

DEATHS REGISTRATION (SPECIAL REGISTERS).

To authorize the Registrar of Births and Deaths to keep
special registers of deaths for the Purpose of registering
deaths previously registered in specified lost registers
of deaths formerly kept by the Registrar of Births and
Deaths.

[31st December, 1947.]

PART I.
PRELIMINARY.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Deaths
Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-
'death certificate (1896)' means a certified and scaled copy.
of an.entry of a death, given pursuant to section 21
of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance,
1896;
'death certificate (1934)' means a certified and scaled copy
of an entry of a death, given pursuant to section 23
of the principal Ordinance;
'general register office' means the office of the Registrar;
'lost register (1896)' means any register book of deaths
.formerly kept in accordance with the provisions of the
Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896 and
which, under section 3 of this Ordinance is deerned
to have been lost;
'lost register (1934)' means any register book of deaths
formerly kept in accordance with the provisions of the
principal Ordinance and which, under section 3 Of
this Ordinance, is deemed to have been lost;
'No. 1 register (1896)' means a special register of deaths
kept under the provisions of this Ordinance for the
purpose of. registering death certificates (1896) ;
'No. 2 register (1896)' means a special register of deaths
kept under the provisions of this Ordinance for the
purpose of registering evidence other than a death
certificate (1896) of previous registration in the lost
register (1896) ;





'No. 1 register (1934)' means a special register of deaths
kept under the provisions of this Ordinance for the
purpose of registering death certificates (1934) ;
'No. 2 register (1934)' means a special register of deaths
kept under the provisions of this Ordinance for the
purpose of registering evidence other than a death
certificate (1934) of previous registration in the lost
register (1934) ;
'principal Ordinance' means the Births and Deaths
Registration Ordinance;
'Registrar' means the Registrar of Births and Deaths;
'Special register of deaths' means the No. 1.register
(1896), or the No. 2 register (1896), or the No. 1 register
(1934), or the No. 2 register (1934), as the context
requires.

PART II.

GENERAL.

3. All the register books of deaths specified in Part
I and Part II of the First Schedule are hereby deerned
to have been permanently lost as from 25th day of
December, 1941.

4. For the purposes of this Ordinance the Registrar
shall cause to be printed in the prescribed form, and kept
in the general register office, special register books of
deaths as follows-
(a) No. 1 register (1896);
(b) No. 2 register (1896);
(c) No. 1 register (1934);
(d) No. 2 register (1934).

5. (1) Any person in possession ofa death certificate
(1896) may require the Registrar to register the death to
which such certificate relates in the No. 1 register (1896)
and such death shall be registered accordingly without
payment of any fee.

(2) Any person in possession of a death certificate
(1934) rnay require the Registrar to register the death to
which such certificate relates in the No. 1 register (1934)
and such death shall be registered accordingly without
payment of any fee.





6. (1) . Any person who is unable to produce a death
certificate (1896) but who by means of other evidence
satisfies, the Registrar that the death to which such
evidence relates was registered in the lost register (1896)
may require the Registrar to register the death in the No.
2 register (1896) and such death shall be registered
accordingly without payment of any fee.

(2) Any person who is unable to produce a death
certificate (1934) but who by means of other evidence
satisfies the Registrar that the death to which such evidence
relates was registered in the lost register (1934) may require
the Registrar to register the death in the NO. 2 register
(1934) and such death shall be registered accordingly
without payment of any fee.

(3 ) No death shall be registered in the No. 2 register
(1896) or the No. 2 register-(1934) except with the consent
of the Registrar and the fact of such consent having been
given shall be entered in any such register.

7. The Registrar shall cause indexes of the special
register of deaths to be made, and any person shall be
entitled on payment of the prescribed fee to require the
Registrar to cause a search to be made of such indexes
and register and to receive a copy of any entry in the said
register certified under the hand of the Registrar and sealed
or stamped with the seal or stamp of the general register
office.

8. (1) The Registrar shall cause to be sealed or
stamped with the seal or stamp of the general register
office all certified copies of entries given in the said office.

(2) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry
in the No. 1 register (1896) shall be received as evidence of
the death to which the same relates without other or
further proof of such entry.

(3) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry
in the No. 1 register (1934) shall be of equivalent evidential
value to that accorded to a death certificate (1934) by
section 23 of the principal Ordinance.

(4) No entry and no certified copy of any entry in
the No. 2 register (1896) or the No. 2 register (1934) shall





be received as evidence of the death to which the same
relates without other or further proof of such entryi

9. There shall be paid in respect of any matter for
which a fee is prescribed under this Ordinance, the fees
specified respectively in Part I of the Fourth Schedule. ,

10. Any person who having custody of the special
register of deaths or certified copies thereof, or of any part
thereof, carelessly loses or injures the same or carelessly
allows the same to be injured whilst in his keeping shall
be deemed to have committed a breach of the provisions
of this Ordinance and upon summary conviction shall be
liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.

11. Any person who wilfully destroys or injures, or
causes to be destroyed or injured, any such register or any
part or certified copy of any part thereof, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor triable summarily and liable to imprison-
ment for two years.

12. With regard to the correction of errors in the
special register of deaths, the following provisions shall
have effect-
(a)no alteration in any such register shall be made
except as authorized by this Ordinance;
(b)any clerical error which may be discovered in any
such register shall, as soon as possible, be
corrected by the Registrar, who shall place his
initials in the margin opposite the entry in which
such error has been discovered;
(c)an error of fact or substance in any such register
may be corrected by entry in the margin (without
any alteration of the original entry) by the
Registrar on payment of the prescribed fee and on
production to him by the person requiring such
error to be corrected of a declaration in the
prescribed form setting forth the nature of the
error and the true facts of the case, and made
by two credible persons to the satisfaction of the
Registrar having knowledge of the truth of the
case, and the Registrar shall initial such marginal
entry and shall add thereto the day and month
and year when such correction is made.





13. (1) The forms prescribed in the Schedules shall
be used in the cases to which they refer.

(2) The Governor in Council may by regulations
provide for the due carrying out of this Ordinance, and
may by such regulations amend the Schedules.

FIRST SCHEDULE. [s. 3.1]
LoST REGISTERS OF DEATHS.
PART I.
Registers of. deaths for merly kept pursuant to the Births and
Deaths Registrations Ordinance, 1896 (No. 7 of 1896).

Serial Particulars of lost registers Office where death
No. of deaths. registered.
1. Register for the period 3rd Kowloon Registry Office.
October,1931, to 31st
December,1931, both days
inclusive.
2. Register for the period 28th do
September,1932, to 31st
December,1932, both days
inclusive.
3. Register for the year 1924. Yaumati Police Station.

PART II.
Registers of deaths formerly kept pursuant to the Births and
Deaths Registration Ordinance (Chapter 174 of the Revised Edition).

Serial Particulars of lost registers Office where death
No. of deaths. registered.
1. Registerfor the period 1stGeneral Register Office.
September 1937, to 29th
November, 1937, both days
inclusive.
2. Register for the period 10th do -
April, 1938, to 15th August,
1938, both days inclusive.
3. Register for the period 29th do -
March, 1939, to 3rd May, 1939,
both days inclusive.
4. Register for the. period 13th do -
November, 1941, to 24th
December, 1941, both days
inclusive.
5. Registerfor the period 1stAberdeen Police Station
January,1940, to 24th
December, 1941, both days
inclusive.





Serial Particulars of lost registers Office where death
No. of deaths. registered.
6. Register for theperiod 1st Stanley Police Station.
January,1939, to 24th
December,1941, both days
inclusive.
7. Register for theperiod 1st Kowloon Registry
January,1940, to 24th Office.
December,1941, both days
inclusive.
8. Register for the period 1st Au Tau Police Station.
January, 1940, to 24th
December, 1941, both days
inclusive.
9. Register for the period 1st Cheung Chau Police
January, 1939, to 24th Station.
December, 1941, both days
inclusive.
10. Register for the period 1st Lok Ma Chau Police
January,1939, to 24th Station.
December, 1941, both days
inclusive.
11. Register for the period 1st Ping Shan Police
January,1939, to24th Station.
December,1941, both days
inclusive.
12. Register for the period 1st Sai Kung Police Station
January,1939, to 24th
'December,1941, both days
inclusive.
13. Register for the period 1st Sha Tau Kok Police
January,1939, to 24th Station.
December, 1941, both days
inclusive.
14. Register for the period 1st Sha Tin Police Station.
January,1940, to 24th
December,1941, both days
ii.clusive.
15. Register for the period 1st Sheung Shui Police
January, 1939, to 24th Station.
December, 1941, both days
inclusive
16, Register for the period 1st Tai O Police Station.
January, 1939, to 24th
December, 1941, both days
inclusive.
17. Register for the period 1st Tai Po Police Station.
January, 1939, to 24th Station.
December, 1941, both days
inclusive.
18. Register for the period 1st Tsun Wan Police
January, 1939, to 24th Station.
December, 1941, both days
inclusive.





SECOND SCHEDULE. [s. 4.]

FoRm 1. [No. 1 Register (1896).]

REGISTER BooK OF DEATHS.

19 Deaths in the district of Hong Kong.




FORm 2. [No. 2 Register (1896).]

REGISTER BOOK OF DEATHS.

19 Deaths in the district ofHong Kong.






THIRD SCHEDULE. [s. 4.]

FORM 1. [No. 1 Register (1934).]

REGISTER BOOK OF DEATHS.
19 Deaths in the district of Hong Kong.




FoRm 2. [No. 2 Register (1934).]

REGISTER BOOK op DEATHS.

19 Deatlis in the district ofHong Kong.






FOURTH SCHEDULE. [s.9]
PART I.
FEES.
The following fees shall be paid in connexion with searches,
corrections of errors and certified copies of entries in the register
books-
1. A search either in indexes or in the register books
for any given entry over a period not exceeding five years,
i.e. a particular search ............$1.00
2. A search either in indexes or in the register books
for information other than that concerning any given entry
i.e. a general search ...............5.00
3. A correction of an error in any register book 1.00
4. A. certified copy of an entry in any of the register
books.............................................................................. 1.00
But if posted to an addressee outside the Colony ... 2.00

[s. 12.]
PART II.
Form 1.
DECLARATION FOR CORRECTION OF ERROR IN
SPECIAL REGISTER OF DEATHS.
We .................................A.B . and
C.D . ....hereby solemnly and sincerely declare that when
the death of .E.F . .....was registered on
the ..........day of ....19 , the following
errors of fact or substance occurred in the register, viz., (here set
forth the error or errors).
And we further solemnly and sincerely declare that the true
facts of the case are as follows-(here set forth the true facts).

Dated the ...day of....................................... 19

.(Signed). A.B.

C.D.
Before me,

(Signed)

Justice of the Peace.
51 of 1947. 22 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. (7 of 1896). (Cap. 174). Death registers deemed lost. First Schedule. Register books. Second Schedule. Forms 1 and 2. Third Schedule. Forms 1 and 2. Requirement of registration in No. 1 registers. Requirement of registration in No. 2 registers. Indexes and searches. Official seal and evidential value of entries in registers and certified copies thereof. Fees. Fourth Schedule. Part I. Penalty for loss or injury of register. Penalty for destroying register. 22 of 1950, s. 3. Correction of errors in register. Fourth Schedule. Part II, Form I. Forms. Regulations. Schedules.

51 of 1947. 22 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. (7 of 1896). (Cap. 174). Death registers deemed lost. First Schedule. Register books. Second Schedule. Forms 1 and 2. Third Schedule. Forms 1 and 2. Requirement of registration in No. 1 registers. Requirement of registration in No. 2 registers. Indexes and searches. Official seal and evidential value of entries in registers and certified copies thereof. Fees. Fourth Schedule. Part I. Penalty for loss or injury of register. Penalty for destroying register. 22 of 1950, s. 3. Correction of errors in register. Fourth Schedule. Part II, Form I. Forms. Regulations. Schedules.

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