✨ Registration Laws Summary
AUCKLAND
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
Vol. II.] AUCKLAND, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1854. [No. 12.
Superintendent’s Office, Auckland,
23rd March, 1854.
The following Extracts from the New Zealand Government Gazette are republished for general information.
R. H. WYNYARD,
Superintendent.
By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland,
28th February, 1854.
WHERE being reason to apprehend that the requirements of the Laws relating to the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages are not sufficiently known, and that the importance of compliance with them is not adequately appreciated, the following Summary of certain of the provisions which relate to cases of most usual occurrence, has been compiled from the Registration Ordinance, Session 8, No. 9, and the Marriage Ordinance, Session 8, No. 7, and is published for general information.
Considering the advantages which—in future years, and under circumstances likely to arise frequently—individuals and families may derive from the existence of a legally authenticated record of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; and, moreover, the benefit to statistical science which may be anticipated from a regular and complete system of registration in this and other countries, it is earnestly hoped that not only the persons who are bound to make the several entries and returns will strictly attend to the requirements of the Ordinances, but also that Ministers, Magistrates, and the intelligent Settlers generally will aid in extending a knowledge of the law and explaining the value of the system in their respective neighbourhoods.
Births.
Clause 9 of the Registration Ordinance provides that the father or mother of any child born, or the occupier of every house or tenement in the colony of New Zealand in which any Birth shall happen, shall, under a penalty not exceeding £10, within 42 days give notice of such Birth to the Deputy Registrar of the district. In case of any new-born child found exposed, a constable of the district shall forthwith give information to the Deputy Registrar.
After the expiration of 42 days, at any time within six calendar months following the day of the Birth of a child, the Birth may be registered, provided that the father or mother, or some person present at the birth of the child, shall make a solemn declaration of the particulars required to be known. In this case, a fee of 10s. 6d. is to be paid. After six months from the day of birth, no registration can be lawfully made. (Clauses 12, 13, 15, 16.)
Deaths.
The occupier of every house or tenement in which any Death shall happen, is required, under a penalty not exceeding £10, to give notice within ten days to the Deputy Registrar of the district. In case of a dead body being found exposed, the Coroner shall forthwith inform the Deputy Registrar; and in every case in which an inquest is held, the Jury shall inquire into the particulars required to be registered, and the Coroner shall
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