9. Registrar-General to declare "National Disaster Areas"

Where there has been within Sri Lanka a natural disaster or calamity which has caused to either 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 due to the circumstance of the deaths of persons who have died as a result of such disaster or calamity, the application of the provisions of the Births and Deaths Registration Act to the registration of the deaths of such persons has become impractical, the Registrar-General may, upon verification of the fact that a natural disaster or calamity has occurred, declare any Administrative

District, Divisional Secretary’s Division or Grama Niladhari

Division as the case may be, affected by such disaster or calamity, as a "National Disaster Area".