BIRTH CERTIFICATE (SHORTENED FORM) REGULATIONS

BIRTH CERTIFICATE (SHORTENED FORM) REGULATIONS

BIRTH CERTIFICATE (SHORTENED FO~
REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 174, section 29(2)).

(Cap. 175, section 13(2)).

[8th October, 1948.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Birth Certificate (Shortened
Form) Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

'short birth certificate' means a certificate of birth the form of which is
prescribed by regulation 3;

'registered persoiC' means a person in respect of whose birth an
application for a short birth certificate is made and whose birth is
registered or recorded in any register or record in the custody of the
Registrar;

'the entry' in relation to a registered person means the entry relating to
him appearing in any such register or record as aforesaid.

3. The form of certificate of birth to be issued by the registrar at the
general register office under section 23 of the Births and Deaths
Registration Ordinance in a case to which these regulations apply, shall
be the form set out in the Schedule.

4. An applicant for a short birth certificate to which these
regulations apply shall furnish to the registrar at the general register
office, except where the application is made to him at the time of
registration of the birth, the following particulars relating to the
registered person

(a) his name and surname;

(b) the date and place of his birth;

(c) the name and surname of his father; and

(d) the name, surname and maiden surname of his mother:

Provided that the registrar at the general register office may
dispense with the furnishing of any of the said particulars which in his
opinion it is not reasonably practicable for the applicant to furnish.





S. (1) A short birth certificate to which these regulations apply shall
be compiled in accordance with and shall contain the particulars required
by paragraphs (2) to (4) of this regulation.

(2) Opposite the words 'Name and Surname' in the form of short
birth certificate there shall be inserted the registered persows name as
recorded in the entry, and immediately thereafter there shall be inserted

(a)where it appears from the entry that the registered person is
legitimate, the surname of his father as recorded therein, or if
more than one such surname is so recorded, then such one of
them as the applicant may request;

(b)where it appears from the entry that the registered person is
illegitimate, the surname of his mother as recorded therein, or, if
more than one surname is so recorded, or if the birth is
registered on the joint information of his mother and father,
then the surname to be inserted in the short birth certificate
shall be such one of the surnames recorded in the entry as the
applicant may request; so however that no such surname shall
be so inserted which appears from the entry not to have been
in use at the time when the birth was registered.

(3) Opposite the words 'Sex' and 'Date of Birth respectively shall
be inserted the particulars thereof in the entry.

(4) Opposite the words 'Place of Birth there shall be inserted the
name of the registration district and register office in Hong Kong in
which the birth was registered.

SCHEDULE. [reg. 3.1

FROM OF CERTIFIVATE FOR ISSUE BY A REGIS~.

Name and Surname .............................................................................. Sex
................................................................................................... Date of Birth
.................................................................................... Place of Birth
....................................................................................

I, A.B. a Registrar of Births and

Deaths do hereby certify that the above particulars have been compiled
from an entry in a register in the custody of the Registrar.

Witness my hand this day of 19

A.B.
(Signed) ............................................................ a
Registrar of Births and Deaths.
G.N.A. 248/48. Citation. Interpretation. Form of certificate. (Cap. 174.) Schedule. Particulars to be furnished by applicants. Manner of compilation of short certificate and particulars to be contained therein.

G.N.A. 248/48. Citation. Interpretation. Form of certificate. (Cap. 174.) Schedule. Particulars to be furnished by applicants. Manner of compilation of short certificate and particulars to be contained therein.

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