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

6A. Register forms
(1) The Registrar shall, before registering a birth under section 5 or 6, arrange for a register form to be—
(a) completed; and
(b) signed by the person who requires such registration.
(2) The register form shall—
(a) (in the case of a registration under section 5(1)) contain such particulars as set out in Form 1 in the Second Schedule;
(b) (in the case of a registration under section 5(2)) contain such particulars as set out in Form 1 in the Third Schedule;
(c) (in the case of a registration under section 5(3)) contain such particulars as set out in Form 1 in the Fourth Schedule;
(d) (in the case of a registration under section 6(1)) contain such particulars as set out in Form 2 in the Second Schedule;
(e) (in the case of a registration under section 6(2)) contain such particulars as set out in Form 2 in the Third Schedule;
(f) (in the case of a registration under section 6(3)) contain such particulars as set out in Form 2 in the Fourth Schedule.
(3) The Registrar shall, on registration of a birth under section 5 or 6, cause—
(a) the signed register form that relates to the birth to be recorded in the form of a digital image; and (Amended E.R. 3 of 2022)
(b) the particulars contained in the form to be stored in the database of a register computer in the form of data which are capable of being retrieved and reproduced in a legible form.
(4) The image recorded in accordance with subsection (3)(a) shall form part of the relevant register in which the birth shall be registered.
(Added 8 of 2006 s. 23)

7. Indexes and searches
(1) The Registrar shall cause indexes of the special register of births to be made, and any person shall be entitled on payment of the prescribed fee to require the Registrar to cause a search to be made of such indexes and register and to receive a copy of any entry in the said register certified under the hand of the Registrar and sealed or stamped with the seal or stamp of the general register office. (Amended 26 of 1949 s. 3; 8 of 2006 s. 24)
(2) If the particulars of an entry have been stored in the manner described in section 6A(3)(b), the Registrar may cause to be produced a copy of such entry by using such particulars, and the copy so produced, if certified and sealed (or stamped) in accordance with subsection (1), shall be deemed to be a certified copy of such entry in the special register of births. (Added 8 of 2006 s. 24)

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

8. Official seal and evidential value of registers
(1) The Registrar shall cause to be sealed or stamped with the seal or stamp of the general register office all certified copies of entries given in the said office. 
(2) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in the No. 1 register (1872) and in the No. 1 register (1896) shall be received as evidence of the birth to which the same relates without other or further proof of such entry. 
(3) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in the No. 1 register (1934) shall be of equivalent evidential value to that accorded to a birth certificate (1934) by section 24 of the principal Ordinance. 
(4) Every entry and every certified copy of an entry in the No. 2 register (1872), the No. 2 register (1896) or the No. 2 register (1934) shall be received as proof that evidence (other than a certified and sealed copy of an entry of birth) to the satisfaction of the Registrar has been produced that the birth to which such entry or certified copy thereof relates was registered in the appropriate lost register. (Replaced 17 of 1953 s. 2) 
(Amended 26 of 1949 s. 3)

9. Fees
There shall be paid in respect of any matter for which a fee is prescribed under this Ordinance, the fees specified respectively in Part I of the Fifth Schedule.

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

10. Offences and penalties
(Replaced 8 of 2006 s. 25)(1) Any person who having custody of or access to the special register of births or certified copies thereof, or of any part thereof, carelessly loses or injures the same or carelessly allows the same to be injured whilst in his keeping or possession commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1. (Amended L.N. 25 of 1996; 8 of 2006 s. 25)
(2) Any person who having the custody of or access to the database referred to in section 6A(3)(b)—
(a) alters any data in the database or allows such data to be altered, other than for the purpose of carrying out duties under this Ordinance;
(b) carelessly loses or damages any data in the database or allows such data to be lost or damaged; or
(c) otherwise tampers with the database so that the data contained in it or any part of such data becomes incapable of being retrieved or reproduced in a legible form,
commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1 or to imprisonment for 6 months. (Added 8 of 2006 s. 25)

12. Correction of errors
(Replaced 8 of 2006 s. 26)(1) With regard to the correction of errors in the special register of births, the following provisions shall have effect— (Amended 8 of 2006 s. 26)
(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 Fifth Schedule, Part II, Form 1)

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

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 41 of 1967 s. 2)

### Births and Deaths Registration (Description of Causes of Death) Regulations 《生死登記(死因述明)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Births and Deaths Registration (Description of Causes of Death) Regulations.

2. Description according to W.H.O.’s 3-Digit List
For the purpose of paragraph (d) of section 20 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance (Cap. 174), causes of death shall be described in accordance with the Detailed List of Three-Digit Categories (3位數字詳細分類表) set out in the Manual of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death (國際病症、損傷及死亡原因統計分類手冊), published by or by arrangement with the World Health Organization and as the same may from time to time be revised.