Section 9
of Births and Deaths Registration Act
Section 9
(1)
Every Deputy Registrar shall detach, at such intervals as may be prescribed, from their counterfoils, all such pages of the registration books in his possession as shall have been filled in as provided by this Act, together with those which shall have been cancelled by the Deputy Registrar, and shall forward them to the Registrar.
(2)
Every Deputy Registrar shall keep in a suitable strong room or other safe place, all counterfoils in their original binding after all the pages have been detached and forwarded to the Registrar.
(3)
The Registrar shall cause the pages received by him from the
Deputy Registrars under subsection (1) to be strongly bound from time to time in books, preserving the original sequence of the pages as indicated by the printed numbers thereon and separating, in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed, the pages relating to one registration area from the pages relating to other registration areas, and shall keep the pages and books in a suitable strong room or other safe place.
Inspection of registers; certified copies of entries.