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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]
BIRTHS, DEATHS AND BURIALS LAW
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
1. Citation.
2. Interpretation.
3. Births and Deaths which are registrable.
4. Appointment of Principal Registrar.
5. Appointment of registries.
6. Duties of Principal Registrar.
7. Duties of registrars.
8. Registers not to be removed from office without permission.
Registration of Births
9. Persons responsible for registering births.
10. Registrar may summon persons to register births.
11. New-born child found exposed.
12. Illegitimate children.
13. Certificate of registration of birth.
14. Registration after three and twelve months from birth.
15. Persons baptising.
16. Registration of name subsequent to registration of birth.
17. Certificate of baptism to be given.
Registration of Deaths
18. Deaths in houses or on board ship.
19. Deaths not in houses or on board ship.
20. Registrar may summon persons to register death.
21. No registration after twelve months.
22. Medical certificate of cause of death.
23. When inquest held person other than coroner not required to register death.
Correction of Errors in Registers
24. Correction of errors in general.
25. Correction of entries when registered in wrong office.
26. Principal Registrar to be informed of such corrections.
Searches in and Certified Extracts from Register
27. Right to search register.
28. Form of certified copies.
29. Admission of certified copies in evidence.
Fees
30. Fees.
Burials
of Persons whose Deaths are Registrable and of Still-born Children whose Births
if they had been born
alive would have been Registrable
31. Registrar to issue certificate for burial.
32. Coroner may authorise burial before registration of death.
33. Registrar’s certificate and coroner’s order to be delivered to person burying.
34. Prohibition against burial without proper sanction.
35. Time within which dead bodies are to be buried.
36. Burial of deceased child as still-born.
Appointment of Burial Grounds
37. Power to appoint burial grounds.
38. Control and management of public burial grounds.
39. Where public burial ground provided corpses not to be buried elsewhere.
Burials Generally
40. On whom duty of causing a body to be buried falls.
41. No corpse to be buried at less depth than four feet.
42. Power of court to close dwelling-house near which corpse is buried.
43.(1)Search warrant for corpse buried near a dwelling-house.
(2) Removal and burial of corpse buried in contravention of Law.
Exhumation
44. Exhumation.
Penalties and Miscellaneous
45. Penalty for failing to register birth or death.
46. Offences by registrars.
47. Registration of non-registrable births and deaths.
48. Power to make regulations.
First Schedule
Second Schedule
CHAPTER B3
BIRTHS, DEATHS AND BURIALS LAW
A Law to provide for registration of births, and deaths, and to regulate burials.
[F. & L. 1958, Cap 23. L.N. 257 of 1959. L.N. 112 of 1964. L.S.L.N. 16 of 1972.]
[1st April, 1918] [COMMENCEMENT]
1. Citation This Law may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Burials Law.
2. Interpretation
In this Law unless the context otherwise requires—
“house” means any building and also any part of a building, where such part is occupied separately from the rest, and includes a prison, lock-up, hospital, lunatic asylum and public or charitable institution;
“occupier” includes the officer in charge of any prison, hospital, lunatic asylum, or public or charitable institution, and where a house is let in separate lodgings or apartments, includes any person residing in such house who is the person under whom such separate lodgings or apartments are immediately held, or his agent;
“registrar” includes a deputy registrar;
“relative” includes a connection by marriage;
“the parent” means in the case of a legitimate child, the father, or, if the father be dead, then the mother, and in the case of an illegitimate child, the mother;
“the particulars required to be furnished” means with reference to a birth the particulars comprised in Form A or Form B in the First Schedule as the case may be, and, with reference to a death the particulars comprised in Form C or Form D in the said Schedule as the case may be;
[Forms A, B, C and D. First Schedule.]
“to register” in relation to a registrar, means to record in the proper book the particulars furnished to him concerning a registrable birth or a registrable death, and, in relation to any other person, means to furnish to the best of his knowledge and belief, to the registrar at the proper registry the particulars required to be furnished with regard to a registrable birth or registrable death and to sign the entry in the book relating to such birth or death.
3. Births and deaths which are registrable
(1) Births and deaths are registrable under this Law in the cases following—
(a) all
births and deaths occurring amongst aliens in the Lagos State or in the
territorial waters of the Lagos State.
[L.S.L.N. 16 of 1972.]
(b) all births and deaths occurring amongst Nigerians in any area or territorial waters of the Lagos State defined in an order made under subsection (2).
(2) The State Commissioner may by order direct that all births and deaths occurring amongst Nigerians in an area of the Lagos State defined in such order shall be registered.
[L.N. 257 of 1959.]
(3) The birth of a child still-born is not registrable under this Law.
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