Registration of Deaths (Temporary Provisions) Act 2010 · As enacted · Part II · Registration of Deaths of Persons Missing Due to Natural Disasters or Calamities
10. Who may apply for the issue of a Death Certificate in case of persons missing as a result of any natural disaster or calamity, and procedure
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Where any person or persons—
who had been resident within an area declared to be a National Disaster Area under section 9 ; or
who have been resident within any other area, but was at the time of the occurrence of such natural disaster or calamity, known to have gone to or to have been within any area declared to be a National Disaster Area under section 9, cannot be found subsequent to such natural disaster or calamity and has for all intent and purposes disappeared as a result of such disaster or calamity, a next of kin of such person or persons or where no members of the family of such person or persons have survived the natural disaster or calamity, any person having knowledge of such person or persons may, if he verily believes such person or persons to be dead, apply to register the death of such person or persons, in the manner hereinafter provided, under the Births and
Deaths Registration Act and to have issued to him a
Certificate of Death or certificates of Death in respect of the death of such person or persons.
Every such application shall be made to the Grama
Niladhari of the area within which such person, whose death is sought to be registered, was habitually resident.
Every such application shall be submitted in any form whatsoever, containing wherever possible at least some of the information set out in the Schedule hereto, which information would as far as practicable be a description of the person whose death is sought to be registered. Every such application shall be accompanied by an Affidavit in support of such facts. The Grama Niladhari shall as soon as possible upon the receipt of such application, and after such inquiry as he deems necessary, recommend the same and forward it along with a report certifying to the best of his knowledge the accuracy of the facts stated therein, to the
Divisional Secretary of the Division within which his
Division is situated. The Divisional Secretary shall endorse every such application and forward the same to the Registrar-General.
Upon receipt of an application under subsection (2), duly recommended and endorsed in terms of the provisions of subsection (3), the Registrar-General shall make order directing the appropriate Registrar to register in the
Register of Deaths maintained by such Registrar under the
Births and Deaths Registration Act, the particulars specified in such application and issue in respect of the person to whom the application relates, a Certificate of Death.
Upon receipt of an order under subsection (4)
directing him to enter the particulars relating to the relevant death in the Register of Deaths maintained by him under the
Births and Deaths Registration Act, the Registrar shall forthwith enter such particulars in such Register and sign the Register in the appropriate place.
There shall be attached to the duplicate of the relevant registration entry, the written order of the Registrar-General made under subsection (4) and such duplicate and order shall together be sent, by the Registrar to the appropriate
District Registrar for transmission to the Registrar-General for custody in his office.
Where the application under subsection (1) is made directly to the Registrar-General, the provisions of subsection (2) to (6) shall, mutatis mutandis, apply as if the reference in those sections to the District Registrar is a reference to the Registrar-General.
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