Births, deaths and marriages registration amendment (1847) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO DECIIVIO

VICTORIA, REGINA:.

No. XVII.

An Ordinance to amend an Act entitled "an Act to provide for the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, in the Colony of Western Australia."

BEREA 'S an Act was passed in the fourth and fifth years of Preamble.

the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled " an Act to provide

for the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in the colony of ttehateteVdict. NO 9 to

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Western Australia ;" and whereas it is expedient to amend the same

10th Viet. No. 17. 1847.

in certain respects ;—Be it therefore enacted, by his Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that some

Parties to give informa. person present at the death, or in attendence during the last illness, tion to Registrar. of every person dying, or the occupier or some inmate of the house

or tenement, or the master of any coasting vessel or boat, in which such death shall have happened, or such other person as the Regis- trar shall deem most competent according to the circumstances, shall give information upon being requested so to do to the Registrar, according to the best of his or her knowledge or belief, of the several particulars required to be known touching the death of such deceased person ; and that any such person refusing to give such information, or giving false information, shall be liable to the like pains and pen: alties as are provided by the said Act for neglecting to give notice of

Appropriation of penalties. that every pecuniary penalty under this Ordinance shall be recovered

a death, or for wilfully making any false statement respectively, and

and appropriated in like manner as the like penalties under the said

Act are thereby directed to be recovered and appropriated.

Former registration on II. AND be it enacted, that all such entries of deaths as shall

similar information to be

valid have been made by the respective Registrars since passing of the said Act, upon other information than that required under the said Act, where they were unable to obtain the requisite information from the parties in the said Act mentioned, shall be valid for the purposes of the said Act.

AND be it enacted, that all births, deaths, and marriages

shall be registered henceforth according to the forms in the Schedules

hereunto annexed.

Form of registration to be III.

as in schedules.

IV.     AND be it enacted, that the said Act, as to all proceedings,

Terms Registrar and sub- matters and things henceforth to be taken or done thereunder, shall	Registrar to be construed be read and construed as if the words " Registrar-General had been
as Registrar- General and
Registrar. substituted in and throughout the same for the word " Registrar,"

and as if the word " Registrar" had been substituted in and through-

out the same for the words " Sub-Registrar."

FREDERICK CHIDLEY IRWIN,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Council

2nd Sept., 1847. 3

WALKINSHA IV COWAN,

Clerk of the Councils.

No. No.

When and where

When and where born.

Married.

Name, if any.

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Name and sur- Sex.

name.

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of Father.

Age.

Name and maiden

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Condition. Mother.

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Signature, descrip Sion, and residence

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time of Marriage. 0

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