Act Number: 6

Act Name: The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886

Year: 1886

Enactment Date: 1886-03-08

Long Title: An Act to provide for the voluntary Registration of certain Births and Deaths, for the establishment of General Registry Offices for keeping Registers of certain Births, Deaths and Marriages, and for certain other purposes.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Home

Section 21: Persons authorised to give notice of death.
    Any of the following persons may give notice of a death, namely:—
         (a) any relative of the deceased having knowledge of any of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death;
         (b) any person present at the death;
         (c) any person occupying, at the time of the death, any part of the house wherein the death occurred and having knowledge of the deceased having died in the house;
         (d) any person in attendance during the last illness of the deceased:
         (e) any person who has seen the body of the deceased after death.
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