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Alteration of name after registration, how registered

Cap. 157, s. 19 · Revised Edition 2020

Where the birth of any child has been registered and the name, if any, by which it was registered is altered, or, if it was registered without any name, then when a name is given to it, the parent or guardian of such child or other person procuring such name to be altered or given may, within twelve months next after the registration of the birth, deliver to the Registrar a certificate in the form given in the Schedule V, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit, and the Registrar upon receipt of such certificate and upon payment of the prescribed fee, shall, without any erasure of the original entry, forthwith enter in the register the name mentioned in the certificate as having been given to such child. Schedule V. name. Registration of Births and Deaths[CAP. 157 19

Amended by: 7 of 2000

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