CIVIL AVIATION (BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MISSING PERSONS) ORDINANCE

CIVIL AVIATION (BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MISSING PERSONS) ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

CIVIL AVIATION (BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MISSING

PERSONS) ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 173





CHAPTER 173

CIVIL AVIATION (BIRTHS, DEATHS AND
MISSING PERSONS)

To provide for the keeping of records of births and deaths, and records
of persons missing and believed to have died in consequence of an
accident, occurring in any, part of the world in, or during
ajourney, in any aircraft registered in Hong Kong, and to provide
for the preservation of such records by the Registrar of Births and
Deaths.

[13 October 1950.1

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Births,
Deaths and Missing Persons) Ordinance.

2. (1) The Governor may by regulation provide for requiring such
persons as may be specified in the regulations to keep records and make
returns to the Director of Civil Aviation

(a)of births and deaths occurring in any part of the world in any
aircraft registered in Hong Kong; and

(b)of the death, outside Hong Kong, of any person who, being a
traveller on such an aircraft, is killed on the journey in
consequence of an accident to such aircraft. (Amended, L.N.
1711174)

and for the keeping in the Civil Aviation Department of a record of any
returns made to the Director of Civil Aviation in accordance with any
such requirement as aforesaid and may by such regulations specify that
any person who fails to comply with any such requirement shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine of $300.

(2) Where such an offence as aforesaid has been committed by a
body corporate, every person who at the time of the commission of the
offence was a director, general manager, secretary or other similar officer
of the body corporate, or was purporting to act in any such capacity,
shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence, unless he proves that the
offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he
exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as
he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions
in that capacity and to all the circumstances. In this subsection the
expression 'director' includes any person occupying the position of
director by whatever name called.

(3) Where any such regulations provide for the keeping of records
in the Civil Aviation Department in accordance with subsection (1) they
shall also provide for the transmission of certified copies of those
records to the Registrar of Births and Deaths.





(4) The Registrar of Births and Deaths, upon receipt of any
such certified copies shall cause them to be filed and preserved in a
book to be kept by him for the purpose, and to be called the Air
Register Book of Births and Deaths.

(5) Regulations made under subsection (1) shall provide for the
rectification of any records kept in the Civil Aviation Department in
pursuance of the regulations and for the transmission of certified
copies of any corrected entry in the records to the Registrar of Births
and Deaths.

(6) The Registrar of Births and Deaths, upon receipt of a
certified copy of any such corrected entry shall cause the correct
entry to be substituted for the corresponding entry for the time
being made in the Air Register Book of Births and Deaths.

(7) The Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance shall have
effect as if the Air Register Book of Births and Deaths were a
certified copy transmitted to the Registrar of Births and Deaths in
accordance with section 5 of that Ordinance.

(8) The Governor may by regulation provide-

(a)for the keeping in the Civil Aviation Department of a
record of persons reported to the Director of Civil Avia-
tion as missing, being persons with respect to whom there
are reasonable grounds for believing that they have died in
consequence of an accident to an aircraft registered in
Hong Kong;

(b) for the rectification of any such record; and

(c)for the transmission of information as to the matters for
the time being entered on the record to the Registrar of
Births and Deaths.
Originally 33 of 1950. L.N. 171/74. Short title. Power for the Governor to make regulations for recording and registration of births and deaths, etc. (Cap. 174.)

Originally 33 of 1950. L.N. 171/74. Short title. Power for the Governor to make regulations for recording and registration of births and deaths, etc. (Cap. 174.)

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