9. Registrar-General to declare “National Disaster Areas”

Where there has been within Sri Lanka a natural disaster or calamity which has caused either to the whole of

Sri Lanka or to certain areas thereof, destruction to persons and property, which has had far reaching effects at the national level, and where the number of persons dead as a result of such disaster or calamity has reached alarming proportions thereby making the application of the provisions of the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 110) to the registration of the deaths of such persons impractical, the Registrar-General may, upon verification of the fact that a natural disaster or calamity has occurred, declare any Administrative District,

Divisional Secretaries Division or Grama Niladhari Division as the case may be affected by such disaster or calamity, as a

“National Disaster Area”.