Registration of Deaths (Temporary Provisions) Act 2010 · As enacted · Part I · Registration of Deaths of Persons Missing Due to Terrorist or Subversive Activity or Civil Commotion
6. Registration of Death
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
On the expiry of the period of one month allowed for the forwarding of objections to an application, the
Registrar-General or the District Registrar, as the case may be, shall consider the application together with the evidence in support of the application and the objections, if any, and the evidence tendered in support of such objections, and after such inquiry as he may deem necessary, if satisfied as to the truth of the matters stated in the application, allow such application. Where the application was made to the
District Registrar, he shall forward to the Registrar-General a Report under his hand setting out the particulars of the death as is required to be registered, under the Births and
Deaths Registration Act, as he has been able to ascertain upon the completion of such inquiry as aforesaid.
On receipt of the Report under subsection (1), the
Registrar-General shall, except in a case where he disallows a Report in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 7, make order directing the appropriate Registrar to enter in the Register of Deaths maintained by such Registrar under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, the particulars specified in such Report and issue in respect of such person a Certificate of Death.
On receipt, by a Registrar, of an order under subsection (2), directing him to enter the particulars in relation to the relevant death in the Register of Deaths maintained by him under the Births and Deaths Registration Act and issue in respect of such person a Certificate of Death, the Registrar shall forthwith enter those particulars in such register and sign the Register in the appropriate place and issue the
Certificate of Death.
There shall be attached to the duplicate of the relevant registration entry, the written order of the Registrar-General made under subsection (2) and such duplicate and order shall together be sent, by the Registrar to the appropriate
District Registrar for transmission to the Registrar-General to be kept in his custody in his office.
Part II
Registration of Deaths of Persons Missing Due to Natural Disasters or Calamities
Part III