Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act

If a birth notice is given more than one year after the birth date, the birth cannot be registered unless the notice meets the prescribed late-registration requirements.

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Jurisdiction: South Africa
Instrument: Act or statute
Citation: Act 43 of 1998
Version: Undated source snapshot
Language: en
Updated: 4 Sept 1998
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administrative compliance civil registration witness protection

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If a birth notice is given more than one year after the birth date, the birth cannot be registered unless the notice meets the prescribed late-registration requirements. If a death cannot be certified in the usual way, a person who was present at the death or later learned of it must give notice in the prescribed manner, and the section 4 person must handle that notice under the prescribed procedure. A new subsection says subsection (1) does not apply if the alteration was authorized in the prescribed manner under a witness protection plan. This section states the short title of the Act.

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Section 9 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as
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AI-assisted research summary: If a birth notice is given more than one year after the birth date, the birth cannot be registered unless the notice meets the prescribed late-registration requirements.

1. Section 9 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1992 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3): 5 ‘‘(3A) Where the notice of a birth is given after the expiration of one year from the date of birth, the birth shall not be registered unless the notice of the birth complies with the prescribed requirements for a late registration of birth.’’. Amendment of section 14 of Act 51 of 1992
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Section 14 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following
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AI-assisted research summary: If a death cannot be certified in the usual way, a person who was present at the death or later learned of it must give notice in the prescribed manner, and the section 4 person must handle that notice under the prescribed procedure.

2. Section 14 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following paragraph to subsection (1), the existing subsection becoming paragraph (a) thereof: ‘‘(b) Where notice of a person’s death cannot be given by means of a certiﬁcate mentioned in section 15(1) or (2) because a medical practitioner did not attend him or her before his or her death, or was not available to examine the corpse, any person who was present at the death, or who became aware thereof, must give notice of the death in the prescribed manner, and the person contemplated in section 4 must deal with such notice in accordance with the prescribed procedure.’’. 10 15 Amendment of section 27 of Act 51 of 1992
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Section 27 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following
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AI-assisted research summary: A new subsection says subsection (1) does not apply if the alteration was authorized in the prescribed manner under a witness protection plan.

3. Section 27 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following 20 subsection, the existing section becoming subsection (1): ‘‘(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply where the alteration was authorized in the prescribed manner under a witness protection plan.’’. Short title 4
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This Act shall be called the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act, 1998.
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4. This Act shall be called the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Act, 1998.

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