TION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS, 1863. book, and 26 Vic. c. 11, or deaths shall, subject to such regulations as shall REGISTRA- be made from time to time by the RegistrarGeneral, with the approval of the Lord Lieutenant, allow searches to be made of the register book in his keeping, and shall give a copy certified under certificates his hand of any entry or entries in the same, on tries therein payment of the fee herein-after mentioned; (that by Registrars. is to say,) for every such search the sum of one shilling, and the sum of one shilling for every single certificate. given of on Superintendent Registrars the certified copies sent to General Register Office. Fees. 53. Every Superintendent Registrar shall make out an account four times in every year, on such to be paid for days and for 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 to the Registrar-General as provided by this Act, and shall send the said account to the Registrar-General: If on examination and comparison with the certified copies of the registers or certificates received by the Registrar-General such account shall be found correct, the Superintendent Registrar shall be entitled to receive twopence from the Registrar-General for every entry in such certified copies of registers of births and deaths. Registrars to make out accounts quarterly. 54. Every Registrar shall make out an account four times in every year, on such days and for such periods as shall from time to time be appointed by the Registrar-General, of the number of births and deaths which he shall have registered in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, and the Superin tendent Registrar shall verify and sign the same: The Guardians of the union in which he shall be Registrar, on production of the said account se verified and signed, shall pay to the said Registrar out of the monies in their hands or power as such Guardians at the rate of one shilling for every entry of birth or death included in such account, and the same shall be charged to the union at large. PART VI. 26 Vic. c. 11, REGISTRA TION OF BIRTHS AND 1863. wilfully information. 55. Every person who shall wilfully make or cause to be made, for the purpose of being inserted Penalty for in any register of birth or death, any false state- giving false ment 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. or falsifying books. 56. The thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh sections Penalty for of an Act passed in the twenty-fourth and twenty- destroying fifth years of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to register consolidate and amend the Statute Law of England and Ireland relating to indictable Offences by Forgery, shall be incorporated with and form part of this Acta. not duly deaths, or or injuring 57. Every Registrar who shall refuse or without Penalty for reasonable cause omit to register any birth or death registering of which he shall have had due notice, or to make births or any addition to or alteration upon the register in for losing accordance with the provisions of this Act, and registers. every person having the custody of any register book 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 forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds for every such offence. books to tendent Registrar. 58. Every person who under the provisions of Penalty for neglecting this Act is required to deliver the registers of births to send and deaths, or copies of such registers, to any register Superintendent Registrar or to the Registrar- SuperinGeneral, 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 forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds. 59. Any person who shall knowingly register Penalty for or cause to be registered the birth of otherwise than is by this Act required after the birth, after expiration of three calendar months following the a See p. 546. any child improper registry of six months. REGISTRA TION OF DEATHS, 1863. 26 Vic. c. 11, day of the birth of such child, or who shall knowingly register or cause to be registered the birth BIRTHS AND of any child after the expiration of six months following the day of the birth of such child, except in the case of children born at sea or in a foreign country, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. Penalty for failing to give notice of birth or death. Penalty for failing to give infor mation to Registrar respecting birth or death, &c. Penalty for neglecting to give notice of finding new-born 60. Any person required by this Act who shall, within the period specified by this Act, fail to give notice of any birth or death to the Registrar of the district within which such birth or death shall have occurred shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings. 61. Any person required by this Act who shall, within the period specified by this Act, fail to attend personally at the place specified by the Registrar of the district within which such birth or death shall have occurred, and to give information to such Registrar of the particulars required by this Act 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 forty shillings. 62. In the case of finding exposed any new-born child, or any dead body, any person who shall be to Registrar required by this Act to give notice, and who shall not give notice forthwith of finding the 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 twenty shillings. child, or any dead body. exigible if notice given. Notices may post. Penalties not 63. No penalty imposed by this Act on persons failing to give any notice required by this Act shall be exacted, if any of the persons so required shall have given such notice; and whenever nobe given by tice is required to be given by this Act, the person bound to give the notice shall be held to have suffciently discharged himself, if he shall have 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. REGISTRA TION OF BIRTHS AND 1863. 64. No penalty shall be exacted in any case 26 Vice. 11, when it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Justice or Justices that the person failing to comply with the provisions of this Act, in relation to the giving notices or information under the same, has No penalty not wilfully been guilty of such failure, but that where such failure has been occasioned by unavoidable wilful. accident, or by circumstances over which he had no control, and where he had used every reasonable endeavour towards compliance with such provi sions. failure not how re 65. Any penalty recoverable under the provi- Penalties sions of this Act, shall be recoverable in a summary coverable. way, with respect to the police district of Dublin Metropolis, subject and according to the provisions of any Act regulating the powers and duties of Justices of the Peace for such district, or of the police of such district, and, with respect to other parts of Ireland, before a Justice or Justices of the Peace sitting in Petty Sessions, subject and according to the provisions of "The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851," and any Act amending the c. 93. same. 14 & 15 Vic. FORMS]. |