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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Registrar shall, at the request of the Registrar-General, make and transmit to the Registrar-General true copies certified under his hand of the entries, the duplicates of which have been lost or mislaid, and such copies shall be substituted by the Registrar-General for the duplicates aforesaid.

41. The registers to be kept in pursuance of these regulations and the corresponding records in the Registrar-General’s office 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-General or Registrar, as the case may be, shall, on application by any person and on payment of the respective fee set forth in the said Schedule, issue a certified copy of any entry in any such register or record, or a certificate of the date of any birth or death.

42. Any clerical error that may at any time be discovered in any register of births or deaths may be corrected by a person duly authorized in that behalf by the Registrar-General, and if the duplicate of the entry requiring to be corrected has been then received by the Registrar-General, such duplicate may be corrected by him on receipt of a notice that the correction has been made in the register.

43. Any error or omission of fact or substance in any such register may, within three months of the discovery of the error or omission, be corrected as follows:—

(a) The person requiring such error or omission to be corrected shall produce to the Registrar a declaration made by him setting forth the nature of the error and the true facts of the case.

(b) If the Registrar is satisfied with the declaration, he shall thereupon make a new entry, in the register-book, and shall write across the original entry a reference to the new entry, and shall add to such reference the date of correction.

(c) The new entry shall be signed by the person requiring the correction to be made, and by two credible witnesses, who shall respectively sign the register; of the said three persons one at least shall be a person who was required under these regulations to give information of the birth or death, as the case may be.

44. Save as aforesaid, or as otherwise specially provided in these regulations, no alteration in or addition to any register of births or deaths shall be made.

45. Where by reason of distance from a Registrar’s office, or from any other sufficient cause, 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 be done within a reasonable time thereafter, or if the conditions imposed be complied with so far as is reasonably possible.

46. The provisions of these regulations relating to the registration of births shall apply in the case of a stillborn child, but it shall not be necessary to register the death of any such child. A stillborn child shall be deemed to be a child which has issued from its mother after the expiration of the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy and which was not alive at the time of such issue.

47. The Registrar-General or any Registrar may take and receive any declaration required by these regulations, and every such declaration may be made in the form prescribed in the Third Schedule hereto or to like effect. Every person who wilfully makes and subscribes any such declaration knowing the same to be untrue in any material particular shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five pounds.

48. Every person required by these regulations to furnish information or particulars in respect of any matter who, without sufficient cause, fails to furnish such information or particulars within the respective time herein prescribed shall be liable on summary conviction for a first offence to a fine of two pounds, and for a second or any subsequent offence to a fine of five pounds; and every person who knowingly furnishes false information or particulars of any matter of which he is required by these regulations to furnish information or particulars shall be liable to a fine of five pounds.

49. Every Registrar who refuses or without reasonable excuse omits to register any birth or death of which he has received information, and every person having custody of any register-book who negligently loses or injures same, or negligently allows same to be injured while in his keeping, is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five pounds.

50. No proceedings shall be taken in respect of any breach of these regulations without the prior consent of the Registrar-General.

51. The provisions of section 33 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, and section 3 of the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act, 1930, shall apply to the deaths of Maoris.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
Form No. 1.
REGISTER OF THE BIRTHS OF MAORIS.
Under the Maori Births and Deaths Registration Regulations, 1935.
Registered at , in the Provincial District of .

• State whether a Maori of full blood, or three-quarter, half, or quarter caste, or not a Maori, or as the case may be.

Form No. 2.
REGISTER OF DEATHS OF MAORIS.
Under the Maori Births and Deaths Registration Regulations, 1935.
Registered at , in the Provincial District of .

• (a) Immediate cause.
  (b) and (c) Morbid conditions giving rise to immediate cause.
  (d) Other morbid conditions not related to immediate cause.
  † State whether a Maori of full blood, or a three-quarter, half, or quarter caste, or not a Maori, or as the case may be.