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V-3 - Vital Statistics Act

Section 3
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Duties of Registrar General
3(1)The Registrar General shall maintain a system of registration of births, stillbirths, marriages and deaths.
3(2)The Registrar General may arrange and index the original registration forms of births, stillbirths, marriages and deaths, including all the particulars communicated to the Registrar General with respect to those registrations.
3(3)The Registrar General may keep the forms referred to in subsection (2) as records in his or her office in accordance with section 3.1.
1982, c.66, s.1; 2011, c.37, s.16
Duties of Registrar General
3The Registrar General shall maintain a system of registration of births, stillbirths, marriages and deaths, and in so doing may
(a) cause the original registration forms of the births, stillbirths, marriages and deaths, with all particulars thereof communicated to him, to be arranged, indexed and kept in his office as a record;
(b) use any system of mechanical or electronic data processing, or any other information storage system that is capable of retrieving required information in legible written form within a reasonable time, to record particulars contained on original registration forms referred to in paragraph (a), in which case the particulars recorded thereby shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be deemed to be those communicated on the original registration forms filed pursuant to the provisions of this Act or any predecessor thereof.
1982, c.66, s.1