1953 c. 20

 

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Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953


1953 (1 & 2 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 20


PART II


REGISTRATION OF DEATHS


S.19.


 

S.21.


Registration of death free of charge.

20. Where the registrar receives personally from any qualified informant, at any time before the expiration of twelve months from the date of the death or finding of the dead body of any person, information of the particulars required to be registered concerning that person's death, then, so soon as he has received any particulars required to be registered concerning the cause of death which are required to be given by any person other than the informant, he shall forthwith register the death and the particulars, if not previously registered, in the prescribed form and manner without any fee or reward from the informant:


Provided that if in pursuance of a request in writing the registrar registers the death--


(a) 

at the residence of the person making the request; or


(b) 

at the house where the deceased died, that house not being a public institution,


the informant shall pay to the registrar a fee of one shilling and sixpence.


S.19.


 

S.21.