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Part I · Issue of Death Certificates

3. Procedure for obtaining a certificate of death in respect of a person referred to in section 2

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(1)

The next of kin of any person referred to in section 2, or where there is no next of kin living, any other person having knowledge of such person, may apply in the manner hereinafter provided, to have a certificate of death issued in respect of such person.

(2)

An application referred to in subsection (1) may at any time after expiry of six months from December 26, 2004, be made in the Form set out in the Second Schedule to this Act and shall be submitted along with an affidavit to the Grama

Niladhari of the area within which such missing person was resident. The Grama Niladhari shall, immediately upon the receipt of such application, display a notice in his office calling for objections, if any, to the issue of a death certificate as applied for, within two weeks of the date of such notice.

The Grama Niladhari shall, upon the expiry of the period for filing of objections, and after such inquiry as he deems fit and having obtained a report from the Officer in Charge of the Police Station of the area, authenticate the same and forward it along with his report as to the accuracy of the facts stated therein, to the Divisional Secretary of the division within which his area is situated. The Divisional Secretary shall endorse every such application and forward the same to the Registrar-General.

(3)

Upon receipt of an application, duly authenticated and endorsed in terms of subsection (2), the Registrar-General shall, upon being satisfied on the documents presented, make order directing the appropriate Registrar to register in the

Register of Deaths maintained by such Registrar under the

Births and Deaths Registration Act (Chapter 110), the particulars specified in such application and issue in respect of such person a certificate of death, and such appropriate

Registrar shall forthwith enter such particulars in such register and sign the register in the appropriate place.

(4)

There shall be attached to the duplicate of the relevant registration entry, the 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 for custody in his office.

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Part II

Custody of Children and Young Persons

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Part III

Prescription

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Part IV

Actions Under Section 66 of the Primary Courts’ Procedure Act

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Part V

Tenants of Premises

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Part VI

Offences in Respect of Tsunami Relief Property

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Schedules