Section 19Part 0 — Registration of Births
Name of father of illegitimate child to be entered by Registrar
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The name of the father of the child of a single woman shall be entered by the Registrar on the registration form and counterfoil if —
the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of such child attend personally before the Registrar and request that person to make such entry, in which case the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father must both sign the form and the counterfoil;
the Registrar is furnished with a declaration in the prescribed form signed by the mother and by the person acknowledging himself to be the father of such child, and by a Justice, the Clerk of the Court, a registered medical practitioner, an attorney or a marriage officer taking the declaration of the mother and of the person acknowledging himself to be the father; or
the mother or the person acknowledging himself to be the father attends personally before the Registrar and requests the Registrar, in writing, to enter the name of the person alleged or acknowledging himself to be the father and presents a declaration from the other of the two parents signed in accordance with paragraph (b), and the request and declaration are both to the same effect.