Section 14: Responsibility for declaration of birth

14. Responsibility for declaration of birth (1) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), the father or mother of a child shall declare the birth of the child. (b) Where a child is born in a prison, asylum, quarantine area or station, orphanage or other institution and the father is unknown or untraceable and the mother has passed away, is insane or otherwise incapable on medical grounds of declaring the birth, the person in charge of that place shall declare the birth. (2) — (3) Where the birth of a child more than 45 days old has not been registered, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry responsible for the subject of child development may cause the birth to be registered under section 12 (2) or (3). [S. 14 amended by Act 30 of 1994; Act 15 of 1998; s. 8 of Act 22 of 2004.] C24 – 11 [Issue 1] Civil Status Act