Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS) (RETURNS OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MISSING PERSONS) REGULATION - SECT 13

Rectification of entries of births, deaths and missing persons

(1) Where the Superintendent is satisfied that there is an error or omission
in any entry made in the record of births, deaths or missing persons kept by
him under section 12, he may, in accordance with evidence of the true facts
relating to the entry, rectify it in such manner as may appear to him
appropriate.

(2) Where it appears to the Superintendent that an entry of the birth of a
child in the record of births kept by him under section 12 should be amended-

   (a)  where the child is an illegitimate child and no person has been
        registered as the father of the child, so as to show a person as the
        father;

   (b)  so as to reflect the making of a declaration of parentage or
        legitimacy in respect of the child by a court pursuant to section 6 of
        the Parent and Child Ordinance ( Cap 429); or

   (c)  so as to reflect an order of a court under section 12 of the
        Parent and Child Ordinance ( Cap 429) that the child be treated in law
        as the child of the parties to a marriage, he may amend the entry in
        such manner as appears to him to be appropriate.

(3) In exercising the powers conferred by subsection (2), the Superintendent
shall have regard to the circumstances and manner in which the Registrar may
re-register a person's birth for the purposes of the following provisions,
namely-

   (a)  as regards the powers conferred by subsection (2)(a), section  12A of
        the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance ( Cap 174);

   (b)  as regards the powers conferred by subsection (2)(b), section  12B of
        the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance ( Cap 174);

   (c)  as regards the powers conferred by subsection (2)(c), section  12C of
        the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance ( Cap 174).

(4) Within 7 days after the rectification or amendment of an entry in his
records in accordance with this section, the Superintendent shall cause a
certified copy of the rectified or amended entry to be sent to the Registrar.
(Enacted 1995)