### Deaths Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance 《死亡登記 (特設登記冊) 條例》

12. Correction of errors
(Amended 8 of 2006 s. 37)(1) With regard to the correction of errors in the special register of deaths, the following provisions shall have effect— (Amended 8 of 2006 s. 37)
(a) no alteration in any such register shall be made except as authorized by this Ordinance;
(b) any clerical error which may be discovered in any such register shall, as soon as possible, be corrected by the Registrar, who shall place his initials in the margin opposite the entry in which such error has been discovered;
(c) an error of fact or substance in any such register may be corrected by entry in the margin (without any alteration of the original entry) by the Registrar on payment of the prescribed fee and on production to him by the person requiring such error to be corrected of a declaration in the prescribed form setting forth the nature of the error and the true facts of the case, and made by 2 credible persons to the satisfaction of the Registrar having knowledge of the truth of the case, and the Registrar shall initial such marginal entry and shall add thereto the day and month and year when such correction is made. (see Fourth Schedule, Part II, Form 1)

13. Forms and regulations
(1) The forms prescribed in the Schedules shall be used in the cases to which they refer. 
(2) The Chief Executive may by order published in the Gazette provide for— (Amended 71 of 1999 s. 3) 
(a) the amendment of the Schedules; and 
(b) the due carrying out of the Ordinance. 
(Replaced 42 of 1967 s. 2)

### Births Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance 《出生登記(特設登記冊)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Births Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance.

### Births Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance 《出生登記(特設登記冊)條例》

3. Birth registers deemed lost
All the register books of births specified in Part I, Part II and Part III of the First Schedule are hereby deemed to have been permanently lost as from the 25th December 1941.

4. Maintenance of registers and storage of information
(1) The Registrar shall maintain the following registers—
(a) No. 1 register (1872) in Form 1 in the Second Schedule;
(b) No. 2 register (1872) in Form 2 in the Second Schedule;
(c) No. 1 register (1896) in Form 1 in the Third Schedule;
(d) No. 2 register (1896) in Form 2 in the Third Schedule;
(e) No. 1 register (1934) in Form 1 in the Fourth Schedule; and
(f) No. 2 register (1934) in Form 2 in the Fourth Schedule.
(2) The registers shall be kept in the form of a digital image in the general register office. (Amended E.R. 3 of 2022)
(3) On the commencement* of the Births, Deaths and Marriages (Digital Image) Ordinance (8 of 2006), the special register books of births shall form part of the registers maintained by the Registrar under this section and be recorded in the form of a digital image by the Registrar. (Amended E.R. 3 of 2022)
(4) The Registrar shall cause the particulars of the entries contained in the special register books of births to be stored in the manner described in section 6A(3)(b).
(Replaced 8 of 2006 s. 21)

4A. Disposal of special register books of births
Where—
(a) the special register books of births or any part of them has been recorded in the form of a digital image; and (Amended E.R. 3 of 2022)
(b) the particulars of the entries contained in such register books or such part of them have been stored in the manner described in section 6A(3)(b),
the Registrar may destroy or otherwise dispose of such register books or such part of them (as the case may be) in such manner as he thinks fit.
(Added 8 of 2006 s. 22)

### Births Registration (Special Registers) Ordinance 《出生登記(特設登記冊)條例》

5. Requirement of registration in No. 1 registers
(1) Any person in possession of a birth certificate (1872) may require the Registrar to register the birth to which such certificate relates in the No. 1 register (1872) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee. 
(2) Any person in possession of a birth certificate (1896) may require the Registrar to register the birth to which such certificate relates in the No. 1 register (1896) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee. 
(3) Any person in possession of a birth certificate (1934) may require the Registrar to register the birth to which such certificate relates in the No. 1 register (1934) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee. 
(Amended 26 of 1949 s. 3)

6. Requirement of registration in No. 2 registers
(1) Any person who is unable to produce a birth certificate (1872) but who by means of other evidence satisfies the Registrar that his birth was registered in the lost register (1872) may require the Registrar to register his birth in the No. 2 register (1872) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee. 
(2) Any person who is unable to produce a birth certificate (1896) but who by means of other evidence satisfies the Registrar that his birth was registered in the lost register (1896) may require the Registrar to register his birth in the No. 2 register (1896) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee. 
(3) Any person who is unable to produce a birth certificate (1934) but who by means of other evidence satisfies the Registrar that his birth was registered in the lost register (1934) may require the Registrar to register his birth in the No. 2 register (1934) and such birth shall be registered accordingly without payment of any fee. 
(4) No birth shall be registered in the No. 2 register (1872), the No. 2 register (1896) or the No. 2 register (1934) except with the consent of the Registrar and the fact of such consent having been given shall be entered in any such register. 
(Amended 26 of 1949 s. 3)