Section 11
Surname of child
of Registration of Births and Deaths Ordinance, 1958
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(1)
The surname to be entered in respect of the registration of a birth shall ordinarily be the surname, if any, of the father of the child:
Provided that, where the mother is the informant and volunteers the information that the child is illegitimate, the surname, if any, registered shall be the surname of the mother of the child at the date of birth.
(2)
A Senior Registrar may, at any time within seven years after the birth of a child, or within such longer period as the Regional
Registrar may in any particular case approve, add the surname of the child to an entry in other respects complete, on proof to his satisfaction that the person on whose behalf the application is made is the person referred to in the entry.