Cap 174 s 5A Computer record (BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE)

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Chapter:	174	Title:	BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	5A	Heading:	Computer record	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) The Registrar shall cause to be compiled, in accordance with this section, a computer record of the particulars required to be registered under this Ordinance.
(2) The registrar at the general register office or at a district registry office shall, in respect of-

(a) every signed register form completed in his presence; and

(b) every certified copy of a signed register form sent to him under section 11(2),

for registering any birth or death under this Ordinance on or after 6 November 1995, record the particulars contained in it in the form of data stored in the database of a register computer, and the data shall be capable of being retrieved and reproduced in a legible form.
(3) The Registrar may cause the particulars of the entries in any register book or any part of a register book to be recorded in the computer record, in the form of data as described in subsection (2).
(4) The computer record shall be divided into 2 parts for recording such particulars on births and deaths respectively.

(Added 80 of 1997 s. 50)