Where birth not registered, Registrar may summon persons responsible

(1) Where a birth has not been registered within such forty- two days as aforesaid, the Registrar may by notice in writing summon any of the persons required by either section 10 or 11 to give information concerning the birth to attend personally at the registry, within such time, being not less than seven days after receipt of such summons and not more than twelve months after the date of the birth, as may be specified in such summons, and to give him information to the best of his knowledge and belief of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth, and every person so summoned shall comply with such summons, unless the birth has been registered before the time therein specified. (2) Any such summons may be in the form given in the Schedule III, and shall be served by a police officer.