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Part I · Registration of Deaths of Persons Missing Due to Terrorist or Subversive Activity or Civil Commotion

7. Appeal against refusal to issue certificate &C.,

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

An applicant who is dissatisfied with the decision of the District Registrar refusing to issue a Certificate of Death to him under section 6, or a person who has objected under section 5 to the issue of a Certificate of Death under this Act and who is dissatisfied with the decision of the District

Registrar to issue such Certificate, may within one month of the notification of such refusal or issue, as the case may be, appeal to the Registrar-General against such refusal or issue, as the case may be. The Registrar-General may after review of the material before him, either affirm the decision of the

District Registrar, or direct the District Registrar to issue a

Certificate under section 6, or disallow the report issued by that District Registrar under section 6, as the case may be.

Part II

Registration of Deaths of Persons Missing Due to Natural Disasters or Calamities

Part III

Miscellaneous Provisions

Schedules