Section 15

Notwithstanding any omission to report or furnish information as to any birth within 42 days or any death within 3 days, it shall be the duty of the Deputy Registrar to procure by all means in his power the best and most accurate information respecting any birth or death which may have occurred within his registration area and to cause the same to be recorded (so far as is practicable) in the manner prescribed by section 5, but not until after the expiration of the time last mentioned in each case.

Every entry made under this section on any page of a registration book and on the counterfoil thereof shall be marked by the Deputy Registrar, in such manner as may be prescribed, with the words “Post Registration”.

No copy of any entry so marked shall be receivable in evidence as prescribed in section 10 unless the truth of the facts therein entered shall have been found by a Magistrate in a proceedings instituted before him under this section and such Magistrate has certified his finding in the register.

Such proceedings may be instituted by any person claiming to have an interest in substantiating the record marked “Post Registration” and shall be brought by way of information and summons to be served on the

Registrar calling upon him to show cause why a certified copy of such entry should not be entitled to be received in evidence in the manner and to the extent provided by section 10.

Duties of police officers and headmen.