Hong Kong Ordinances

BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 32

Disposal of documents when recorded in form of digital image

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Where-

   (a)  any signed register form has been recorded in the form of
        digital image; and

   (b)  the particulars contained in the form have been recorded in the
        computer record, the Registrar may destroy or otherwise dispose of the
        form, and any microfilm on which it is recorded, in such manner as he
        thinks fit.

(2) Where any register book or any part of it has been recorded in the form of
digital image, the Registrar may destroy or otherwise dispose of the register
book or such part of it (as the case may be), and any microfilm on which the
register book or such part of it (as the case may be) is recorded, in such
manner as he thinks fit. (Replaced 8 of 2006 s. 17)