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THE PUNJAB MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1976 (Punjab Act
42 of 1976)
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Vital Statistics
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320. Appointment of Chief Registrar and Registrars.
- (1) The Corporation Health Officer shall be the Chief Registrar
of births and deaths for the City and shall keep in such form as may
be prescribed by bye-laws a register of all births and deaths occurring
in the City.
(2) The Commissioner shall for the purposes of this Chapter appoint
such number of persons to be registrars of births and deaths as he
deems necessary and define the respective areas which shall be under
the charge of such registrars.
321. Duties of registrars. - The
registrar shall keep' himself informed of every birth or death occurring
within the area under his charge and shall ascertain and register
as soon as conveniently may be after the event, and without fee or
reward such particulars in respect of every birth or death as may
be prescribed by bye-laws made in this behalf.
322. Information of births and deaths.
- (-1) It shall be the duty of the father or mother of every child
born in the City and in default of the father or mother, of any relation
of the child living in the same premises, and in default of such relation,
of the person having charge of the child to give to the best of his
knowledge and belief to the registrar of. the area concerned within
eight days after such birth, information containing such particulars
as may be prescribed by bye-laws made in this behalf.
(2.) It shall be the duty of the nearest relation present at the time
of the death or in attendance during the last illness of any person
dying in the City and in default of such relation, of any person present
or in attendance at the time of the death, and of the occupier of
the premises in which to his knowledge the death took place and in
default of the person hereinbefore mentioned, of each inmate of such
premises and of the undertaker or other person causing the corpse
of the deceased person to be disposed of, to give to the best of his
knowledge and belief to the registrar of the area within which the
death took place information containing such particulars as may be
prescribed by bye-laws made in this behaff.
(3) If a birth or death occurs in the hospital none of the persons
mentioned in sub-section (1) or, as the case may be, in sub-section
{2) shall be bound to give information required by that sub-section,
but it shall be the duty of the medical officer incharge of the hospital
within twenty-four hours after the birth or death, to send to the
Corporation Health Officer a notice containing such particulars as
may be prescribed by bye-laws made in this behalf.
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