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14. Amendment of section 17 of the principal enactment

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Section 17 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after the definition of the expression “District Registrar” of the following definition:-

“Minister” means the Minister assigned the Registrar-General’s Department;

Registration of Deaths (Temporary Provisions)

“relative” shall in relation to a missing person include the following persons:-

(i)

spouse;

(ii)

children including adopted children, non-marital children, or step children;

(iii)

parents (including step-mother, step-father, adopter);

(iv)

full or half brothers or sisters or adopted brothers or sisters;

(v)

father-in-law, mother-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law;

(vi)

grandchildren and grandparents.

Read on from s 15