Hong Kong Ordinances

BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 8

Information respecting living new-born child to be given to a registrar

(1) In case any child is born in, or any new-born child is admitted to, any
public institution, convent or other charitable or religious institution, it
shall be the duty of the person having charge of such institution or convent
to ascertain from the mother of such child or person bringing such child such
information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth
of such child as can be elicited and to cause such information to be given to
a registrar within 42 days. (Amended 1 of 1965 s. 3)

(2) In case any living new-born child is found exposed, it shall be the duty
of any person finding such child, and of any person in whose charge such child
may be placed, to report such finding to a registrar, and within 42 days to
give, to the best of his knowledge and belief, such information of the
particulars required to be registered concerning the birth of such child as
the informant possesses, and, in the presence of such registrar, to sign and
submit to such registrar a register form completed with the information so
given. (Amended 1 of 1965 s. 3; 80 of 1997 s. 53) [cf. 1874 c. 88 s. 3 U.K.]