Section 310Part 13 — CONTROL OF, AND RETURNS AS TO, PERSONS ON SHIPS
Returns of births and deaths in ships, etc.
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The Cabinet may make regulations under subsections (2) to (10) in relation to births and deaths in the circumstances specified in those subsections.
Regulations under this section may require the master of any Cayman Islands ship to make a return to the master of the ship of —
the birth or death of a person occurring in the ship; and
the death of a person employed in the ship, wherever occurring outside the Islands,
and to notify any such death to such person, if any, as the deceased may have named to the master as next of kin.
Regulations under this section may require the master of any ship not registered in the Islands which calls at a port in the Islands in the course of or at the end of a voyage to make a return to the Shipping Master of any birth or death of a Cayman Islands citizen which has occurred in the ship during the voyage.
The returns referred to in subsections (2) and (3) shall be for transmission to the Shipping Master as soon as may be possible following the event of birth or death as the case may be.
Regulations under this section may require the Shipping Master to record such information as may be specified in the regulations about such a death as is referred to in subsection (2) in a case where —
it appears to the Shipping Master that the master of the ship cannot perform the master’s duty under that subsection because the master has died, is incapacitated or missing; and
any of the circumstances specified in subsection (6) exist.
The circumstances referred to in subsection (5)(b) are that —
the death in question has been the subject of —
an inquest held by a coroner; or
an inquiry held under section 439,
and the findings of the inquest or inquiry include a finding that the death occurred; or
the deceased’s body has been the subject of a post-mortem examination and in consequence the coroner is satisfied that an inquest is unnecessary.
Regulations under this section may require the Shipping Master to send a certified copy of any return or record made under the Regulations to the Registrar General for the Islands.
Regulations under this section may make a contravention of any provision of the Regulations an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine of four thousand dollars.
Regulations under this section may contain provisions authorising the registration of the following births and deaths occurring outside the Islands in circumstances where no return is required to be made under subsections (1) to (8) —
any birth or death of a Cayman Islands citizen which occurs in a ship not registered in the Islands;
any death of any such citizen who has been employed in a ship not registered in the Islands which occurs elsewhere than in the ship; or
any death of a person who has been employed in a Cayman Islands ship which occurs elsewhere than in the ship.
References in this section to deaths occurring in a ship include references to deaths occurring in a ship’s boat.
Referenced By
- Section 442 — Admissibility in evidence and inspection of certain documents
section 310 - returns or reports