Section 5

Every person reporting a birth or death to a Deputy Registrar shall, if and so far as he is able, write in the appropriate spaces of the page of the registration book placed before him for that purpose by the Deputy Registrar and also of the counterfoil of the page, all the information indicated by the printed headings appearing on the page and counterfoil. If and so far as any person so reporting is unable to write the information indicated by the headings, he shall furnish the required information orally to the Deputy

Registrar, who shall write it in the appropriate spaces.

When the required information has been written on the page and counterfoil, the person furnishing the information shall sign his name in the appropriate place on the page and counterfoil or if he is unable to sign his name shall, in lieu of signature, affix the impression of his right thumb in ink which shall be witnessed by the Deputy Registrar; and thereafter the Deputy

Registrar shall, in the appropriate spaces on the page and counterfoil, fill in

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the date of the furnishing of the said information as the date of registration and affix his signature:

Provided that in the event of a person who is required to affix a signature or thumb impression to information recorded under this section being a woman and unable through illness or other cause to affix such signature or impression, she may authorise any male relative to affix on her behalf his signature or thumb impression thereto.

Every person reporting a birth or death under the provisions of this section shall be entitled to receive free of charge a copy of the entry signed by the Deputy Registrar.

Original and duplicate registers.