Section 2

words referring to burial of bodies shall be held to include burning of bodies;

“Deputy Registrar-General” means the Deputy Registrar-General of Births and Deaths for the Federation appointed under section 3(1A) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1957

[Act 299];

“District” means an administrative district of Sarawak and includes an administrative subdistrict of Sarawak and any area for which a Registrar is appointed under section 3;

“house” includes public institution;

“occupier”

includes the keeper, master, matron, superintendent or other chief officer of every public institution, and, where a house is let in separate apartments or lodgings, includes any person residing in such house who is the person under whom such lodgings or separate apartments are immediately held, or his agent;

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“public institution” includes a prison, lock-up, mental hospital, hospital and any other public or charitable institution;

“Regional Registrar” means the Regional Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed under section 3(1);

“register” includes all register books in existence upon the 1st day of August, 1958, any registers and prescribed forms provided under of section 5(1) and microfilm photographs of such register books, registers and prescribed forms;

[Ins. Ord. No. 19/58.]

“Registrar-General” means the Registrar-General of Births and Deaths appointed under the Births and Deaths Registration

Act 1957 [Act 299];

“still-born” and “still-birth” shall apply to any child which has issued forth from its mother after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy and which did not, at any time after being completely expelled from its mother, breathe or show any other signs of life.