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

Section 8

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Special procedure relating to registration of deaths of persons in respect of whom there are finding by a Commission of Inquiry or a Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry

(1)

Where a Commission appointed under the

Commissions of Inquiry Act (Chapter 393) or a Special

Presidential Commission of Inquiry established under the

Special Presidential Commissions Law, No. 7 of 1978 finds that a person has disappeared or is missing, the next of kin of that person may, apply to the Registrar-General or to the

District Registrar of Births and Deaths of the District in which that person was last residing or had his permanent residence, substantially in the Form set out in the Schedule to this Act, to register the death of that person under the Births and

Deaths Registration Act and to have issued to him, a

Certificate of Death in respect of the death of that person.

Every such application shall be accompanied by an Affidavit of the applicant in terms of section 3 and a certified copy of the findings of the Commission of Inquiry or Special

Presidential Commission of Inquiry, as the case may be, relating to the death of such person.

(2)

Upon receipt of an application under subsection (1), the District Registrar shall, notwithstanding anything to contrary in the preceding provisions of this Act, forthwith send to the Registrar-General a Report under his hand, setting out the particulars of the death required to be registered under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, as he has been able to ascertain from the application and the accompanying

Affidavit and finding.

(3)

Upon receipt of the Report under subsection (2), 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 Report and issue in respect of such person a Certificate of Death.

(4)

Upon receipt of an order under subsection (3)

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.

(5)

There shall be attached to the duplicate of the relevant registration entry, the written order of the Registrar-General made under subsection (3) and such duplicate and order shall be sent together, by the Registrar to the appropriate

District Registrar for transmission to the Registrar-General to be kept in his custody in his office.

(6)

Where the application under subsection (1) is made to the Registrar-General, the provisions of subsections (2)

and (5) shall mutatis mutandis apply as if the reference in those section to the District Registrar is a reference to the

Registrar-General.

Part II

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

Read on from Part II

Part III

Miscellaneous Provisions

Read on from Part III

Schedules