Section 41
Savings, etc.
of Births and Deaths Registration Act 1957
(1)
Any certificate issued or any notice or information given or any order, regulation or return made or any registration effected or other thing done under or in accordance with any former written law relating to the registration of births and deaths shall if in force at the commencement of this Act, continue in force, and shall have effect as if the same had been issued, given, made effected or done under the corresponding provision of this Act.
(2)
Any form used, and any requirement as to the particulars to be entered in any form used, for the purposes of any written law repealed by this Act in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue in force as though prescribed under this Act until other forms or particulars are so prescribed.
(3)
Where a period of time specified in any Enactment or
Ordinance repealed by this Act is current at the commencement of this
Act this Act shall have effect as if the corresponding provision thereof had been in force when that period began to run.
(4)
Any document referring to the provision of any written law repealed by this Act shall unless the contrary intention appears be construed as referring to the corresponding provision of this Act.
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(5)
A copy of any entry made in the register prior to the commencement of this Act which would if made after such commencement have been entered as a late registration pursuant to section 12 or 21 shall—
(a)
if the truth of the facts therein entered has been found in the manner prescribed by any provision of the written law under which the entry was made or, if not so found, has been established to the satisfaction of the Registrar-General; and
(b)
if certified under the hand of the Registrar-General, be admissible in evidence in the manner prescribed by section 33.
(6)
Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of section 30 of the Interpretation
Acts 1948 and 1967 (which relates to the effect of repeal).
Repeal