9.  In the case of every child born alive, the father and mother of the child, and the occupier of the house in which to his knowledge the child is born, and each person present at the birth and the person having charge of the child and, if the birth occurs in a ship or vessel, the master or other person having charge of the ship or vessel shall, within 14 days after the birth has taken place, furnish to any deputy registrar of the local registration area within which the birth has occurred, the particulars of the same in the prescribed form, and shall certify to the correctness of such information by signing his name in the prescribed place on the form.