Section 15
Occupier and relatives to report deaths
of Registration of Births and Deaths Ordinance, 1958
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(1)
When a person dies in a house, the occupier of the house in which to his knowledge the death took place, the relatives of the deceased present at his death or in attendance during the last illness of the deceased and each person present at the death, and, in default of the persons heretofore in this subsection mentioned, each inmate of the house and the person causing the body of the deceased person to be buried, shall within twenty-four hours after such death, furnish to the Registrar or any Deputy Registrar of the District within which the death has happened, the particulars of such death in the prescribed form, and shall certify to the correctness of such particulars by signing his name in the prescribed place on the form.
(2)
When a person dies in a place which is not a house, or a dead body is found elsewhere than in a house, every relative of such deceased person having knowledge of any particulars required to be registered concerning the death, every person present at the death, every person taking charge of the body, and, if the death occurs in a ship or vessel, the master or other person having charge of such ship or vessel, and the person causing the body to be buried shall give to the Registrar or Deputy Registrar, within twenty-four hours after the death or the finding, such information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death as the informant possesses, and shall certify to the correctness of such information by signing his name in the prescribed place on the prescribed form.
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