Section 43: Death in quarantine stations

43. Death in quarantine stations (1) Where no officer has been appointed for a quarantine station, the person in charge of the station shall keep a register, in a form to be determined by the Registrar of Civil Status, in which he shall record the particulars of every person who dies in the station. C24 – 23 [Issue 1] Civil Status Act (2) Notwithstanding section 37, where a death in a quarantine station has been recorded under subsection (1), the body may be disposed of without a permit having been issued by an officer. (3) (a) Where a death has been recorded under subsection (1), the person in charge of the quarantine station shall, not later than 8 days after the quarantine station ceases to be a quarantine station, forward the register kept by him to the Registrar of Civil Status who shall cause an entry to be made in the appropriate register kept at the Central Civil Status Office in respect of every death recorded under subsection (1). (b) Every entry in the appropriate register made under paragraph (a)— (i) shall contain a marginal note of the circumstances in which it is made; and (ii) where the particulars of the deceased person required under section 38 are not complete, may be completed by information supplied by 2 persons who have known the deceased. (c) Where an entry is completed under paragraph (b) (ii), this Act shall have effect, in respect of any particulars supplied by a person who has known the deceased, as if that person was a declarant under section 38. (4) After all the deaths recorded in a register specified in subsection (1) have been entered in the appropriate register under subsection (3), the register shall be forwarded to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry responsible for the subject of health, to be kept as a permanent record. [S. 43 amended by Act 9 of 1984.]