Hong Kong Ordinances

BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 4

Register forms

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The Registrar shall cause to be supplied to all register offices set out
in the First Schedule register forms of births and register forms of deaths
which shall be respectively in the prescribed form. (See Forms 1 & 2) (Amended
80 of 1997 s. 49; 8 of 2006 s. 10)

(2) The particulars required to be registered concerning any birth or death
shall be the particulars specified in the said forms.

(3) The Registrar shall cause to be kept in his department-

   (a)  the register books of births and the register books of deaths kept at
        the general register office and district registry offices immediately
        prior to 6 November 1995;

   (b)  a births register, in which shall be recorded the particulars of the
        birth of any child that are registered under this Ordinance on or
        after 6 November 1995; and

   (c)  a deaths register, in which shall be recorded the particulars of the
        death of any person that are registered under this Ordinance on or
        after 6 November 1995. (Replaced 80 of 1997 s. 49)

(4) (a) The Registrar may cause the register books, whether in the form of
paper or microfilm, or any part of them to be recorded in the form of
digital image, and for the purposes of subsection (3)(a), the register books,
whether in the form of paper or microfilm, or such part of them as the
Registrar sees fit may be kept in the form of digital image.

   (b)  The births register and the deaths register shall be compiled from
        signed register forms which are recorded in the form of digital image
        in accordance with section 5. (Replaced 8 of 2006 s. 10)

(5) An entry of birth or death in the register shall, in the case of
non-Chinese, be in the English language and in the case of Chinese shall be
both in the English and the Chinese languages. (Added 80 of 1997 s. 49)