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Section 2Part 0 — Introductory

Definitions

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In this Act —
“appointed fee” means the fee appointed in the Second Schedule;
“Chief Medical Officer” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Public Health Act (2021 Revision);
“civil status registers” means and includes all registers containing records or transcripts of records relating to births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials;
“counterfoil” means the duplicate portion of the registration form which is bound in the registration form book and which remains in the registration form book after the registration form has been separated;
“electronic” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Electronic Transactions Act (2003 Revision);
“electronic record” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Electronic Transactions Act (2003 Revision);
“general search” means a search during any number of successive hours, not exceeding six, without stating the object of the search;
“occupier” includes the keeper, master, superintendent or other chief resident officer of any public institution and, where a house is let in separate apartments or lodgings, includes any person residing in such house who is the person under whom such lodgings or separate apartments are immediately held, or that person’s agent;
“particular search” means a search over any period not exceeding five years for any given entry;
“prescribed form” in any section, means the form prescribed by rules under section 68;
“private hospital” means any hospital or nursing home, not being a public institution;
“public institution” means a prison, lock-up, mental or other hospital, and any prescribed public or charitable institution conducted by the Government;
“register” means the general register of births or the general register of deaths, as the case may be;
“Registrar” means a person for the time being holding an appointment as such under section 39, and in connection with any birth, death or other event the Registrar for the district within which such birth, death or other event took place;
“Registrar-General” means the holder of the office established by section 4;
“registration form” means a birth, death or still-birth registration form in accordance with Form A, B or C in the First Schedule;
“Registry” means the Registry of Births and Deaths established by section 3;
“relative” includes a relative by marriage; and
“still-born” and “still-birth” applies to any child which has issued forth from its mother after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy and which did not at any time after being completely expelled from its mother, breathe or show any other signs of life.

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