REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
AMENDMENTS - TO THE LAW. [BY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Monday. The Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Bill, circulated to-day, .proposes to reduce the time for notification of births from three to two days in a borough, and from three weeks to two weeks in other case/. ! In respect of deaths, the Bill proposes to place the onus of registration entirely upon the undertaker, who is to notify the death within three days in a borough, or seven days in other cases, instead of 31,' as.at' present. Certain stipulations are also amended in respect of burial certificates. The Governor is to be empowered to make regulations for the registration of births and deaths of Maoris, such.regulations to be applicable to the whole of New Zealand, or any specified parts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15094, 10 September 1912, Page 7
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