Hong Kong Ordinances

BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 30

Registers formerly kept under former Ordinances

The registers of births and deaths kept under former Ordinances shall, as
hitherto, be preserved by the Registrar, and all the provisions of this
Ordinance relating to entries in registers, alterations of or additions to
registers, searches of registers, copies of entries in registers, custody of
registers, or destruction of or injury to registers, and the provisions of any
Ordinance relating to any offences in respect of registers of births or deaths
authorized or required to be kept under this Ordinance, shall mutatis mutandis
apply to the said registers kept under former Ordinances: Provided that it
shall be lawful for the Registrar to keep separate supplementary registers in
the form of books or such other form as the Registrar may determine for the
purpose of registering the births of any persons who were born before the
commencement of this Ordinance and whose births were not registered in the
registers formerly kept under former Ordinances. (Amended 80 of 1997 s. 66)