JUNE 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2213

11. Every Minister or other person who performs any religious or funeral service for or at the burial of any dead body, or the person who conducts the burial of any dead body, shall give or forward, within seven days, written notice of the burial, in the form No. 4 in the First Schedule hereto or to the effect thereof, to the Registrar of Deaths of the island wherein the death occurred, or, if there shall be in such island more than one such Registrar, then he shall give or forward such notice to the nearest such Registrar.

GENERAL.

12. Every Registrar shall, in the months of January, April, July, and October in each year, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, transmit to the Registrar of the High Court at Rarotonga or at Niue, as the case may be, the duplicate sheets of all registrations of births and deaths effected by him during the three months next preceding, and shall certify on each sheet that the entries therein are a correct copy of the corresponding entries in the Register of Births or the Register of Deaths, as the case may be.

13. The Registers to be kept in pursuance of these regulations shall at all reasonable times be open to the public on payment of the search fee set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, and the Registrar shall on the application of any person, and on payment of the fees set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, issue certificates of any entries in the said Registers.

14. (1.) Every person required by these regulations to furnish particulars in respect of any matter who, without sufficient cause, fails to furnish such particulars shall be liable for a first offence to a fine not exceeding £1, and for a second or any subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding £2; and any person who knowingly furnishes false particulars shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £5.

(2.) Where any person is convicted under these regulations of the failure to furnish particulars required for the registration of any birth or death, the Court shall direct the Registrar forthwith to register such birth or death, and if such birth or death has not been previously registered the Registrar shall forthwith register the birth or death accordingly.

15. The fees set out in the Second Schedule hereto shall be payable to the Registrars of Births and Deaths or to the Registrar of the High Court at Rarotonga or at Niue, as the case may be, in respect of the matters therein specified.

16. The register-books shall be safely kept by the Registrars in whose custody they are placed, and shall be deemed to be the property of the Crown. Upon the death, dismissal, transfer, or resignation of any Registrar of Births and Deaths the custody of such register-books shall pass to his successor in office.

17. Any clerical error from time to time discovered in any Register of Births or Deaths may be corrected by the Registrar, and if the copy of the entry requiring to be corrected has been received by the Registrar of the High Court such copy may be corrected by him on receipt of a notice that the correction has been made in the Register.

18. The Registrar of the High Court at Rarotonga or at Niue, as the case may be, shall cause indexes of the certified copies transmitted to him by the Registrars as hereinbefore provided to be made and kept in his office, and shall permit any person, on payment of the appropriate fee, to search any such index and to have a copy, certified under the hand of the said Registrar of the High Court, of any entry of a birth or death duly certified to him by any Registrar appointed under these regulations.

19. Every Registrar appointed under these regulations who refuses or without reasonable cause omits to register any birth or any death of which he has due notice and information as aforesaid, and every person having the custody of any register-book or certified copy thereof, or of any part thereof, who negligently loses or injures the same, or negligently allows the same to be injured while in his keeping, is liable to a fine not exceeding £5.

20. Where for any sufficient cause shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar any act, matter, or thing required by these regulations cannot be done within the time limited by or in strict compliance with the conditions imposed by these regulations, it shall be sufficient if such act, matter, or thing is done within a reasonable time thereafter, or if the conditions imposed are complied with so far as is reasonably possible.

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