EDWARDI V11 REGIS.

ANNO SEPTIMO

EDWARDI V11 REGIS.

No. 929.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths.

[Assented to, December rath, 1907.1

E it Enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia,

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with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as follows :

1.

Thia Act

may

be cited as the Births, Maniagea, and Ueaths short ^title.

Registration Amendment Act, 1907."

2,

The Sixth Schedule to ^" The Marriage Act, 1867," is hereby ^{Amendment of} amended by inserting after the fourth column thereof, headed "Age," ^{Ad l b 1867.}

an additional d u m n , headed

"

Place snd Country of Birth."

3,

The Act No. 65 1 of 1904, intituled, ^" An Act to amend

'

The Repeal of Act 861

Registration of Births and Ueaths Act, 1874,' " is hereby repealed. ^lgo4.

4,

Section 24 of

"

The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, Certified copiea

1874," is hereby amended by adding the words ^" or District made evidence.

Registrar " after the words Deputy Registrar " in the second line ^l thereof.

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Section 20 of

"

The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, certificate death.

1874," is hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor :- 20. Every medical practitioner who shall have been in atten- dance upon any person deceased, or who shall have examined the body, shall deliver to the nearest of kin, occupier, or other person required t o give information of the death to the District Registrar,

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EDWAKDI VII, No. 929.

Powera of Deputy Hegiatrar.

Fees to b~ paid into revenue.

Act 8 b l of 1904,eec. l .

Forme.

Births, Marriages, and Denths Re.qist~ation Amendment Act.- 1907.

Registrar, a certificate under his hand according to the form in the Sixth Schedule to this Act, setting forth to the best of his knowledge and belief the cause of death, which certificate such nearest of kin, occupier, or other person shall, when notifying the death, deliver to the District Registrar or Registrar-General, and such medical practitioner refusing or neglecting to give such certificate shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding Five Pounds.

6 .

The Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed under

" The Registration of Births snd Deaths Act. 1874," shall have the

same powers and may perform and exercise the same duties and authorities as the Registrar-General of Births and Deaths.

7.

From and after the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and four, all fees levied and received by any Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths, District Registrar, Assistant Registrar, or other person authorised under any Act relating to the levying, receiving, or collecting of fees for the registration of births and deaths, shall be forthwith forwarded by the persons so levying, receiving, or collecting to the Registrar-General of Births and Deaths, a t Adelaide, and shall be applied to the purposes of the General Revenue of' the State : Provided, nevertheless, that when a Registrar is only an Assistant Registrar this section shall not apply to the fee of Two Shillings and Six Pence levied and received by him in connection with the late registration of a birth or a death, which last-mentioned fee shall be retained by such Assistant

Registrar for his services in connection with such late registration.

8.

The forms in the Schedules hereto shall hereafter be used as the forms of certificates of the registration of births and deaths respectively

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111 the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill.

GEORGE R. LE HUNTE. Governor.

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULES.

F1R.ST S C H E D U L E . Cert~jicate of Birth.

District of Adelaide.

When Registered.

Or

Profession of Father.

Signature, Description, and

id^^^^ of Informant.

Hame, Surname, Kaiden Surname,

Age, and Birthplace of

Mother.

Name, Surname, Age, and Birthplace of

Father.

Signature of Registrar. When Born, and Name

m e r e .

I

^{c* any).} Marriage of ^{Year of}

Parents.

Name, if added after Registration of

Birth. Deceased.

Number of Issue.

Living.

Max H. Wilson Mary Jane

Brown, formerly

Smith 24 years,

Ballarat, Victoria

Chemist, Rundle Street,

Adelaide

James Edward Smith, uncle, Brown Street,

Adelaide

1897 ^'L July 15th

June 30th, 1903, at Rundle Btreet, Hindmareh W d ,

Adelaide

, 19 .

Registrar. George

Jamea Male

Entered at the John Thomae

Bmwn 30 years, London, England

Registry OEce, this day of

(8igmture of)

NOTE.--When the birth takes place in or at any public or private building used as ^rt hospital, lunatic or destitute asylum, nursing or lying-in home, prison or reformatory, the name by which such building is known must also be entered in the first column.

S E C O N D S C H E D U L E . Cert@cate of Death.

District of Adelaide.

Birthplace bnd Length f Reddencc in Com- nonwealth.

sex.

Male

1

Issue Living. "",er of

1

Issue Deceased. ^Numberof Idamage or

Le-marriage.

Cause of Death.

Heart disease (2 years), pneumonis

( 3 weeks)

Signature, Description, and

Residence Intomant. Place where

Death Occurred.

Angas Street, Young Ward,

Adelaide

Signature of Registrsr and Date

of Registration. Male.

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^Female. ₃

Calcutta, India, 40 gears 63 Laborer Brown Street,

7- Adelaide

Male.

--p

2

Female.

June Both, Bobert John 1 1903 Smith

John James Smith, son, Brown Street,

Adelaide

Entered at the

Max H. Wilmn, July 2nd

Registry OfEce, this day of (8ignalwe of)

, 19

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Registrar. NOTE.-When the d e c d ia a young peraon of no occupation, or a child, or a married woman, or a widow, the rank can be entered, as the case may require, thus ^:-U Son of (or wife of) John James Brown, tailor," or Widow of the late Thomas Jones, carpenter." When the death takes place in or at any public or private building used as a hospital, l m t i c or destitute saylum, n m i n g o r lying-in home, prison or reformatory, the name by which such building is known must also be stated in the twelfth column.