c. 146, young persons, and women may be employed on 30 & 31 Vic. Subject to 3. That male young persons of not less than sixteen years of age may be employed in the same manner as if they were male persons exceeding the age of eighteen. 10. Where the occupier of any workshop is a person of the Jewish religion, and it is his custom to keep such workshop closed on Saturday until sunset, it shall be lawful for him to employ young persons or women on that day from after sunset until nine o'clock at night. Аст, 1867. Towns Corporate with Excep- The Mayor, Aldermen, and tion of Dublin. Towns having Town Commissioners under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vic. c. 113), or under any local Act. burgesses, acting by the The Town Commissioners. Townships having Commis- The Township Commissioners. sioners under local Acts. Towns under Commissioners The Commissioners. appointed by virtue of an Act made in the ninth year of George IV., intituled "An Act to make Provision for Lighting, Cleansing, and Watching of Cities and Towns Corporate and Market Towns in Ireland in certain cases.' Towns having Municipal Com- The Municipal Commissioners missioners, under 3 & 4 Vic. c. 108. Any place not included in the foregoing descriptions. The Guardians of the Poor of the union in which such 6. ACTS FOR THE REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES. THE REGIS ACTS FOR PROVISION is made for the registration of TRATION OF births and deaths in Ireland by the Act 26 BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND Vic., c. 11, and for the registration of marriages by the Act 7 & 8 Vic., c. 81 (as amended by the 26 & 27 Vic., c. 27, and the 33 & 34 Vic., c. 110), and by the Act 26 & 27 Vic., c. 90. The 7 & 8 Vic., c. 81, provides for the registration of all marriages except "any marriages by any Roman Catholic Priest which may now be lawfully celebrated." The 26 & 27 Vic., c. 90, provides for the registration of such marriages as are not within the provisions of the 7 & 8 Vic., c. 81. The 7 & 8 Vic., c. 81, is not in any way connected with the poor law, nor have poor law officers, as such, any function assigned to them under it, and it has therefore been thought unnecessary to include any statement of its provisions in this publication; but as both the 26 & 27 Vic., c. 90, and "The Act for registering Births and Deaths" (26 Vic., c. 11), contain various provisions which affect Boards of Guardians or their officers, those Acts are inserted at full length. 26 VICT. CAP. 11. An Act for the Registration of Births and Deaths in Ireland. [20th April, 1863.] WHEREAS it is expedient that a complete system of registration of births and deaths should be established in Ireland, as in other parts of the United Kingdom: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Preliminary. 26 VIC. e. 11, REGISTRA TION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS, 1863. 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as Short title. "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Ireland) Act." 2. This Act, except as herein otherwise provided, As to extent shall extend to Ireland only. of Act. 3. The following words and expressions shall, Interpretain construing this Act, be taken and understood tion of terms. to have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,) "Lord Lieutenant" shall mean and include the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor "Lord Lieutenant in Council" shall mean the Ꮓ 26 VIC. c. 11, REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATUS, 1863. absence of the Registrar-General shall also mean and include the Assistant RegistrarGeneral for the time being appointed or to be appointed under this Act: Occupier" shall, for the purposes of the notification of births and deaths for registration under this Act, include the Governor, Keeper, Master, Superintendent, or other chief resident officer of every gaol, prison, or house of correction, and of every school, reformatory, workhouse, hospital, lunatic asylum, or other public or charitable institution, and where any house is let in separate apartments or lodgings shall include the person under whom such lodgings or separate apartments are immediately held, and any agent or servant of such person residing in such house: "General search" shall mean a search during any number of successive days, not exceeding six, without stating the object of search: "Particular search" shall mean a search over any period not exceeding five years for any given register of birth or death. General Re to be pro vided, and Registrar appointed. PART I. Registrar-General. 4. The Lord Lieutenant shall cause a proper gister Office office to be provided in the city of Dublin, to be called the "General Register Office," and shall General to be from time to time appoint for the said office a fit and competent person to be the Registrar-General of births and deaths in Ireland, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant, and be removable by him: Provided always, that the person who shall at the date of the passing of this Act hold the office of Registrar-General of marriages under an Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of Her Majesty, chapter eighty-one, Proviso as to present RegistrarGeneral. REGISTRA shall be appointed to the office of Registrar-General 26 VIC. c. 11, under this Act. TION OF DEATHS, and certified 5. The Registrar-General shall cause to be made BIRTHS AND a seal of the said General Register Office, and 1863. shall cause to be sealed or stamped therewith all Seal to be certified copies of entries given in the said office; provided, and all certified copies of entries purporting to be copies given sealed or stamped with the seal of the said General at General Register Register Office (which seal it shall not be neces- Office to be sary to prove) shall be admissible as evidence in all parts of Her Majesty's dominions of the birth or death to which the same relates, without any further or other proof of such entry, and no certified copy purporting to be given in the said office shall be of any force or effect which is not sealed or stamped as aforesaid. sealed therewith. Registrar alter forms. 6. It shall be lawful for the Registrar-General, Power to with the consent of the Lord Lieutenant in Coun- General, with cil, to alter the forms annexed to this Act, regard consent, to being always had to the objects and purposes of this Act, and to rendering the same more effectual; and such alterations of forms shall be published in the Dublin Gazette, and shall thereupon be deemed to be the forms required to be used by this Act, and shall, within fourteen days after the same shall have been issued, be laid before both houses of Parliament, or if Parliament shall not be then sitting within fourteen days after the commencement of the then next Session. clerks, and servants to be appointed 7. It shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant Officers, (or the Registrar-General, subject to the approval of the Lord Lieutenant,) to appoint such and so many officers, clerks, and servants as may from time to time be necessary for carrying on the business of the General Register Office, and at pleasure to remove any of them: Provided always, that all officers, clerks, and servants who may be employed in the business of the General Register Office at the time of the passing of this Act shall, if the Lord Lieutenant (or Registrar-General, subject to the approval of the Lord Lieutenant), think fit, be employed in the business of the General Register Office under this Act as if their original |