Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 21/1979

Read the first time on 15th May 1979.

An Act to amend the Registration of Births and Deaths Act (Chapter 46 of the Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows: —

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 1979.

Amendment of section 10

2. Section 10 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —

“(1) Any surname of a child to be entered in respect of the registration of the birth of the child shall be that of the father of the child; but where the child is illegitimate and the father is not an informant of the birth, the surname, if any, shall be that of the mother of the child.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2) thereof, the following subsections: —

“(3) Where before the commencement of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 1979, the father of an illegitimate child was an informant of the birth of the child and —

(a)	the joint surname of both parents of the child; or
(b)	the surname of the mother of the child,

has been entered in a register of births as having been given to the child, the registrar having the custody of the register shall, upon an application being made in accordance with subsection (4) of this section, forthwith enter in the register the surname of the father as having been given to that child, without making any erasure of the original entry.

(4) An application for the surname of the father of an illegitimate child to be entered in a register of births as having been given to the child shall —

(a)	be made in the prescribed form by any parent or guardian of the child or, where the child has attained twenty-one years of age, by himself; and
(b)	be accompanied by the prescribed fee.”.

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