### Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance 《生死登記條例》

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) Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 10 August 1934.

31. Power to alter fees
The Legislative Council may by resolution vary the amount of any fee specified in this Ordinance. 
(Added 51 of 1986 s. 6) 

32. Disposal of documents when recorded in form of digital image
(1) Where—
(a) any signed register form has been recorded in the form of a digital image; and
(b) the particulars contained in the form have been recorded in the computer record,
the Registrar may destroy or otherwise dispose of the form, and any microfilm on which it is recorded, in such manner as he thinks fit.
(2) Where any register book or any part of it has been recorded in the form of a digital image, the Registrar may destroy or otherwise dispose of the register book or such part of it (as the case may be), and any microfilm on which the register book or such part of it (as the case may be) is recorded, in such manner as he thinks fit.
(Replaced 8 of 2006 s. 17. Amended 3 of 2023 s. 14)

### Civil Aviation (Births, Deaths and Missing Persons) Ordinance 《民航(生死及失蹤者)條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Births, Deaths and Missing Persons) Ordinance.

1A. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
Air Register Book of Births and Deaths (航空生死登記簿) means the Air Register Book of Births and Deaths kept by the Registrar immediately before the commencement* of the Births, Deaths and Marriages (Digital Image) Ordinance (8 of 2006);
Air Register of Births and Deaths (航空生死登記冊) means the register maintained by the Registrar under section 3(1);
digital image (數碼影像), in relation to a document, means an image of the document kept on a computer system or on an electronic medium;
register computer (登記電腦) means a computer forming the system of storing the particulars under sections 3 and 4;
Registrar (登記官) means the Registrar of Births and Deaths, and includes any deputy registrar of births and deaths.
(Added 8 of 2006 s. 3)Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 27 August 2007.

### Civil Aviation (Births, Deaths and Missing Persons) Ordinance 《民航(生死及失蹤者)條例》

3. Maintenance of register and storage of information
(1) The Registrar shall maintain a register called the Air Register of Births and Deaths.
(2) The Air Register of Births and Deaths shall be compiled from the certified copies referred to in section 2(3) and (5) which are recorded in the form of a digital image in accordance with this section.
(3) The Registrar shall, on receipt of any of the certified copies referred to in section 2(3), cause—
(a) the certified copy to be recorded in the form of a digital image; and
(b) the particulars contained in the certified copy 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 Registrar shall, on receipt of a certified copy of any corrected or amended entry referred to in section 2(5), cause—
(a) the certified copy to be recorded in the form of a digital image and substituted for the corresponding digital image kept in the Air Register of Births and Deaths; and
(b) the particulars contained in the certified copy to be—
(i) stored in the manner described in subsection (3)(b); and
(ii) substituted for the corresponding particulars that have been so stored.
(5) Where the Registrar is aware of a clerical error in the particulars stored in the database referred to in subsection (3)(b), he shall cause the error to be corrected as soon as possible.
(6) The certified copies filed in the Air Register Book of Births and Deaths shall, on the commencement* of the Births, Deaths and Marriages (Digital Image) Ordinance (8 of 2006), form part of the Air Register of Births and Deaths and be recorded in the form of a digital image by the Registrar.
(7) The Registrar shall cause the particulars contained in the certified copies referred to in subsection (6) to be stored in the manner described in subsection (3)(b).
(Added 8 of 2006 s. 5. Amended E.R. 5 of 2022) Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 27 August 2007.

4. Disposal of certified copies filed in Air Register Book of Births and Deaths
Where—
(a) any certified copy filed in the Air Register Book of Births and Deaths has been recorded in the form of a digital image; and (Amended E.R. 5 of 2022)
(b) the particulars contained in the certified copy have been stored in the manner described in section 3(3)(b),
the Registrar may destroy or otherwise dispose of the certified copy in such manner as he thinks fit.
(Added 8 of 2006 s. 5)

### Civil Aviation (Births, Deaths and Missing Persons) Regulations 《民航(生死及失蹤者)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Births, Deaths and Missing Persons) Regulations.

2. Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“aircraft” (飛機) includes all balloons, whether captive or free, gliders, airships and flying machines; 
“Director” (處長) means the Director-General of Civil Aviation; (L.N. 326 of 2000)
“journey” (航程) is deemed to commence when a traveller enters an aircraft registered in Hong Kong for the purpose of the journey and to continue until that traveller alights therefrom on completion of the journey, notwithstanding any intermediate stop or break in the journey; 
“missing persons” (失蹤者) means persons with respect to whom there are reasonable grounds for believing that they have died in consequence of an accident to an aircraft registered in Hong Kong; 
“person in command of an aircraft” (掌管飛機的人) means, in a case where a person other than the pilot is in command of the aircraft, that person, and in any other case, the pilot; 
“traveller” (旅客) in relation to an aircraft includes a member of the crew.