Hong Kong Ordinances

BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 24

Official seal

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The Registrar shall cause to be made a seal of the general register office
and a seal of each of the district registry offices and cause to be sealed or
stamped-

   (a)  with the seal or stamp of the general register office all certified
        copies of any entry in a register given in the general register
        office; and

   (b)  with the seal or stamp of the district registry office all certified
        copies of any entry in a register given in that district registry
        office. (Replaced 80 of 1997 s. 62)

(2) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in a register shall be
received as evidence of the birth or death to which the entry relates without
other or further proof of such entry: (Amended 80 of 1997 s. 62) Provided
that-

   (a)  no entry made in a post register book prior to 1 January 1972 shall be
        deemed proof of the birth or death to which it relates without other
        or further evidence thereof; and

   (b)  no certified copy purporting to be issued from the general register
        office or from a district registry office shall be of any force or
        effect unless it is sealed or stamped as aforesaid, and unless the
        entry to which it relates either purports to have been signed by some
        person professing to be the informant and to be such person as
        required by this Ordinance to give information to a registrar
        concerning such birth or death, or purports to have been made upon a
        certificate from a coroner or otherwise in pursuance of the provisions
        of this Ordinance, or, where more than 12 months have intervened
        between the day of a birth or death and the day of the registration of
        such birth or death, unless it purports to have been made with the
        consent and authority of the Registrar. (Amended 57 of 1967 Schedule;
        53 of 1972 s. 2; 80 of 1997 s. 62)

(3) In this section, a reference to a certified copy of any entry in a
register includes a reference to such a certified copy that is produced by
using the information recorded in the computer record. (Added 8 of 2006 s. 14)