Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “Deputy Solicitor General” means the person appointed to perform the duties of the Solicitor General during his absence from office; Sub. Leg., 1991 Edn., Vol. II., p.10. “district” means a judicial district specified in the Inferior Courts (Judicial Districts) Order; “house” means any building or part of a building, where such part is occupied separately from the rest, and includes a prison, lock-up, hospital or public or charitable institution; “informant” means the person giving to the Registrar information of the particulars required to be registered under this Act; 8 “legitimate child” means a child born in wedlock; “Minister” means the Minister responsible for Registration of “occupier” includes the chief resident officer of a prison, hospital or public or charitable institution and the person in charge of any lock-up; “parent” means, in the case of a legitimate child, the father or, if the father is dead or absent, then the mother and, in the case of an illegitimate child, the mother; “particulars required to be registered” means, with reference to a birth, the particulars to be entered in the Register of Births contained in the Schedule I and, with reference to a death, the particulars to be entered in the Register of Deaths contained in the Schedule I; Schedule I. “prescribed” means prescribed by the Minister; “prescribed fee” means the proper fee prescribed in the tables to be made under section 45; “register” means every register of births or deaths, as the case may be, kept or to be kept under or by virtue of this Act; “Registrar” means any of the Registrars appointed by or under this Act, and includes deputy Registrars; “registry” means the office of a Registrar; “relative” includes connection by marriage; “ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation; “stillborn” and “still-birth” apply to any child which has issued forth from its mother after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy Registration of Births and Deaths[CAP. 157 9 and which did not at any time, after being completely expelled from its mother, breathe or show any other signs of life; “the register”, when used in connection with any birth, death or other event to be registered under this Act, means the register kept at the registry of the district, in which such birth, death or other event took or takes place; “the Registrar”, when used in connection with any birth, death or other event, means the Registrar of the district in which such birth, death or other event took or takes place; and “the registry”, when used in connection with any birth, death or other event, means the registry of the district, in which such birth, death or other event took place or takes place.