

On 19/06/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 19/06/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 19/06/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 02/01/2011.

13.
—(1) It shall be the duty of the parent or guardian or other person having the custody of a child whose birth was registered without a name to apply in the prescribed manner for the registration of the name of the child within 12 months of the date of the birth of the child.
(2) Any person whose duty it is under subsection (1) to apply for the registration of a child’s name and who without reasonable cause fails to do so within the time required shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100 and to a further fine not exceeding $40 for every day during which such failure continues after conviction:
Provided that the Registrar-General may impose and order to be paid to him forthwith a penalty not exceeding $50 and, for every day during which such failure continues after the imposition of the penalty, a further penalty not exceeding $20; and he shall pay into the Consolidated Fund all penalties received by him under this subsection.
(3) No prosecution shall be instituted for any offence in respect of which the Registrar-General has imposed a penalty under the proviso to subsection (2).
(4) The amount of any penalty imposed under the proviso to subsection (2) may be recovered in the manner provided by section 319(1)(b)(iii) of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, as if it were a fine.







