Birth registration
7(1)After the birth of a child in a hospital facility or other institution, the administrator or other similar official of the facility or institution shall complete and file, within the time prescribed by regulation, a birth registration form provided by the Registrar General for the purpose of registering the birth of the child with the Registrar General.
7(2)A birth registration form is not completed under subsection (1) unless both the father and the mother have signed the birth registration form.
7(3)Notwithstanding subsection (2), where the administrator or other like official referred to in subsection (1) is unable to secure the signatures of both the father and the mother, the administrator or official may forward the birth registration form to the Registrar General with the signature of either the father or the mother.
7(4)Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (3), where the administrator or other like official referred to in subsection (1) is unable to secure the signature of either the father or the mother under subsection (3), the administrator or official may forward the birth registration form to the Registrar General with such signature as the Registrar General considers appropriate.
7(5)In any other case, after the birth of a child, a birth registration form provided by the Registrar General shall be completed and filed within the time prescribed by regulation for the purpose of registering the birth of the child with the Registrar General
(a)
by the father and the mother,
(b)
by the mother, if the father is unknown, unwilling or unable,
(c)
by the father, if the mother is unable,
(d)
if the father is unknown, unwilling or unable and the mother is unable, by the persons standing in place of the parents, or
(e)
if there is no father or mother or other person whose duty it is to register the birth, by the occupier of the dwelling in which the child was born, if the occupier has knowledge of the birth, or by a person, other than a medical practitioner, present at the birth.
7(6)Where more than one child is delivered during a single confinement, a separate birth registration form for each child shall be completed and filed with the Registrar General as provided in subsection (1) or (5) as the case may be, and in each form the number of children born during the confinement and the order of birth shall be given.
1983, c.94, s.3; 1992, c.52, s.34; 1996, c.24, s.4; 2011, c.37, s.18