[Ord. 10 anno 1868.] Superinten dent Regis. trars to be paid for the certi fied Copies sent to Registrar General. quarterly. No. XXXIII. transmitted from any Superintendent Registrar to the General Register Office or from any Registrar to any Superintendent Registrar or otherwise, at the same time, and by the same person by whom any certified Copies shall be forwarded or transmitted. Fees. 41. Every Superintendent Registrar shall make out and send to the Registrar General an account four times in every year on such periods as shall from time to time be appointed by the Registrar General, of the number of Entries in such certified Copies so sent by him under this Ordinance to the Registrar General; and if on examination such account shall be found correct, the Superintendent Registrar shall be entitled to receive out of such Funds as may be available for that purpose as hereinafter provided but not otherwise, the sum of Four Cents for every Entry in such certified Copies. 42. Every Registrar shall make out an account four times in Registrars to a every year of the number of the Births and Deaths which he shall make Accounts have registered since the last quarterly account, and the Superintendent Registrar shall verify and sign the same; and such account upon being rendered to and certified by the Registrar General shall be submitted for the Governor's warrant, and thereupon there shall be paid to the said Registrar out of such Funds as may be available for that purpose as hereinafter provided but not otherwise, such sums as he shall be entitled to receive on the said account at the rate of Twenty-four Cents for every Entry of Birth or Death included in such account: Provided that no Fee shall be paid for any Entry which shall appear to the Registrar General, to have been made in a careless manner or in an illegible handwriting and provided further that neither the Registrar of Berbice, nor any Commissary of Taxation, Revenue or Police Officer, or Stipendiary Magistrate's Clerk, shall be entitled to receive any Fees under this or the last preceding section as a Superintendent Registrar or Registrar. How Fees to be recovered. * 43. In every case in which any amount shall be payable in respect of Fees under either of the two last preceding sections the same shall be paid as follows: (that is to say,) in the case of any City, *Repealed by Ordinance 8 of 1869 except so far as relates to Georgetown and New Amsterdam. No. XXXIII. City, Town, or Incorporated Village, the same shall be paid by the Municipal or Local Superintendent or Board of Superintendence from and out of the Municipal or Village Rates or Rates or Taxes ;. in the case of any Plantation, Estate, Farm, or Wood-cutting Establishment, the same shall be paid by the proprietor thereof and shall be recoverable by summary execution at the instance of the officer to whom the same shall be due by his style of office without naming him; in the case of any other division of the Colony, the same shall in the first instance be paid out of the Public Funds and the amount so paid shall be made good by a Local Rate to be levied in the District as hereinafter provided. [Ord 10anno 1868.] amount * 44. In every proceeding for the recovery of any account for What shall be Fees as aforesaid, an account purporting to be signed by the Officer evidence of the to whom the same shall purport to be due and purporting to be claimed. certified by the Registrar General and to be stamped and sealed with the Seal of the General Register Office shall without further or other proof be received before all Courts and by all Judges and Justices as sufficient evidence of such account being in every particular correct, and every such account shall be a preferent claim next after claims due to the Crown or to the Colony. may be levied. * 45. In every case in which an account for Fees as aforesaid Special rate shall be paid out of the Public Funds, the Governor and Court of in certain cases. Policy may, by Resolution to be published in the Official Gazette, levy a special Rate upon the Division in respect to which the said Fees shall have accrued for the repayment of such account with interest and costs; and every such special Rate shall have the same preference and shall be recoverable in the district by any Commissary of Taxation for and on behalf of the Colonial Receiver General in like manner as the Rates and Taxes of any Incorporated Village are recoverable by virtue of any Ordinance now or hereafter to be in force. *46. The production of a printed copy of the Official Gazette Assessment of containing any Resolution of the Governor and Court of Policy levy- Rate. P ing *Repealed by Ordinance 8 of 1869 except so far as relates to Georgetown and New Amsterdam, [Ord. 10 anno 1868.] No. XXXIII. ing such rate in any Division of the Colony shall be conclusive evidence of the existence and of the due making and levying of such Rate within such Division; and the same shall be assessed by the Commissary of Taxation upon the Inhabitants thereof and their property in like manner as assessments for the recovery of the Rates and Taxes of any Incorporated Village are made by virtue of any Ordinance now or hereafter to be in force: Provided always that every such assessment must first be submitted to the Governor and Court of Policy for approval and when approved the same shall be final and conclusive. Penalty for wilfully giving false information Penalty for destroying or falsifying Register Books. PART VI. Penallies. 47. Every person who shall wilfully make or cause to be made, for the purpose of being inserted in any Register of Birth or Death, any false statement touching any of the particulars herein required to be known and registered, shall be subject to the same pains and penalties as if he were guilty of perjury. 48. The Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth sections of Ordinance No. 23, of the year 1862, intituled "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Law relating to indictable Offences by Forgery," shall be incorpora'ed with and form part of this Ordinance. 49. Every Registrar who shall refuse, or without reasonable Penalty for not cause omit to register any Birth or Death of which he shall have duly register. ing Births or had due notice, or to make any addition to or alteration upon the Deaths, or Registry in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, and for losing or injuring Regis. every person having the custody of any Register Book, or certified Copy thereof or of any part thereof, who shall carelessly lose or injure the same, or carelessly allow the same to be injured whilst in his keeping, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty-eight Dollars for every such offence. ters. Penalty for 50. Every person who under the provisions of this Ordinance neglecting to is required to deliver the Registers of Births and Deaths or Copies deliver Regis of such Registers to any Superintendent Registrar or to the Regis ters or copies when required. trar No. XXXIII. trar General and who after being duly required to deliver such Registers or Copies as aforesaid, shall refuse or during one calendar month neglect to do so, shall be liable for every such offence to a Penalty not exceeding Forty-eight Dollars. [Ord. 10 anno 1863.] Medical Prac 51. Every Medical Practitioner who, after being required by the Penalty on Registrar to return to him a Certificate of the cause of Death duly titioners for filled up under the thirty-third section hereof, shall, without reason. peglecting to able cause, neglect or refuse so to do, shall be liable for every such ficates of death. offence to a penalty not exceeding Forty-eight Dollars. transmit certi 52. Every person who shall knowingly register or cause to be Penalty for registered the Birth of any child or otherwise than is by the Ordi- improper Regi-try of nance required after the expiration of Three calendar months fol- Birth. lowing the day of the Birth of such child, or who shall knowingly register or cause to be registered the Birth of any child after the expiration of Twelve months following the day of the Birth of such child, shall be liable for every such offence to a Penalty not exceeding Twenty-four Dollars. 53. Every person required by this Ordinance who shall within Penalty for the period specified by this Ordinance, fail to give notice of any notice of Birth failing to give Birth or Death to the Registrar of the District within which such or Death. Birth or Death shall have occurred, shall be be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Dollars. information to 54. Every person required by this Ordinance who shall, within Penalty for the period specified by this Ordinance, fail to attend personally at failing to give the place specified by the Registrar of the district within which Registrar res pecting Birth such Birth or Death shall have occurred, and to give information or Death. to such Registrar of the particulars required by this Ordinance to be registered touching such Birth or Death, or shall refuse to sign the Register in the presence of the Registrar, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Ten dollars. 55. In the case of finding exposed any new-born child, or any Penalty for dead body, every person who shall be required by this Ordinance to failing to give give notice, and who s! all not give notice forthwith of finding the ing new born P2 notice of find. child, or dead same, body. 212 [Ord. 10 anno 1868.] Penalties not exigible if notice given, which may be by Post. No penalty where failure not wilful. recoverable. THE LAWS OF BRITISH GUIANA. No. XXXIII. same, and of the place where the same was found, to the Registrar of the district in which the same shall have been found, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Dollars. 56. No Penalty imposed by this Ordinance on persons failing to give any notice required by this Ordinance shall be exacted, if any of the parties so required shall have given such notice; and whenever notice is required to be given by this Ordinance the person bound to give the notice shall be held to have sufficiently discharged himself if he shall prove upon oath that he put into the Post Office before the expiration of the period within which the notice is required to be given, a letter addressed to the person to whom and containing the particulars of which the notice is required to be given. 57. No Penalty shall be exacted in any case when it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Stipendiary Justice of the Peace that the person failing to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance in relation to the giving notices or information under the same, has not wilfully been guilty of such failure, but that such failure has been occasioned by unavoidable accident, or by circumstances over which he had no control, and where he had used every reasonable endeavour towards compliance with such provisions. 58. Every Penalty recoverable under the provisons of this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a summary manner, according Penalties how to the provisions of Ordinances No. 19 of the year 1856, and Nos. 3 and 5 of the year 1868; and every Stipendiary Justice of the Peace shall have full jurisdiction to hear, determine, and punish any offence under this Ordinance made punishable by any pecuniary Penalty. Appropriation of penalties 59. Every such Penalty may be recovered on the complaint of any person, and when recovered the same shall be paid and appropriated as follows, that is to say, one half to the person prosecuting, and the other half to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for the use of the Colony and in support of the Government thereof.* FORMS *See Ord. No. 5, of 1872, which provides for the distribution of the proceeds o all fines, penalties and forfeitures. |