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Notification of Births
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT

CHAPTER 44:03

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

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45 of 1916

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Index of Subsidiary Legislation

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Prescribed Persons Regulations (G. 22.2.17) … … … … 5

Note on Adaptation
Under paragraph 6 of the Second Schedule to the Law Revision Act (Ch. 3:03) the Commission
amended certain references to public officers in this Chapter. The Minister’s approval of the
amendments was signified by LN 120/1980, but no marginal reference is made to this Notice
where any such amendment is made in the text.

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CHAPTER 44:03

NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT

An Act to provide for the Early Notification of Births.

[28TH DECEMBER 1916]

1. This Act may be cited as the Notification of Births Act.

2. In this Act, “prescribed” means prescribed by regulation
made by the Minister under this Act.

3. This Act shall have effect in such areas in Trinidad
and Tobago as are specified in Orders made by the Minister.

4. (1) In the case of every child born in an area in which this
Act has effect, it shall be the duty of the prescribed person to give
notice in writing of the birth to the Medical Officer of the district
in which the child is born, in manner provided by this section.

(2) Notice under this section shall be given by posting a
prepaid letter or postcard addressed to the Medical Officer at his
office or residence, giving the necessary information of the birth,
within thirty-six hours after the birth, or by delivering a written
notice of the birth at the office or residence of the Medical Officer
within the same time; and the prescribed person shall supply
without charge addressed and stamped postcards containing the
form of notice to any person who applies for the same.

(3) Any person who fails to give notice of a birth in
accordance with this section is liable, on summary conviction to a
fine of forty dollars; but a person shall not be liable to a fine under
this section if he satisfies the Court that he had reasonable grounds
to believe that notice had been duly given by some other person.

(4) The notification required to be made under this Act
shall be in addition to and not in substitution for the requirements
of any Act relating to the registration of births; and any Registrar
of births and deaths, whose district or any part hereof is situated

1950 Ed.
Ch. 12. No. 17.
45 of 1916.
Commencement.

Short title.

Interpretation.

Application
of Act.

Provisions for
early
notification
of births.

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within any area in which this Act has effect, shall at all reasonable
times have access to notices of births received by a Medical Officer
under this Act, or to any book in which those notices may be
recorded, for the purpose of obtaining information concerning
births which may have occurred in the district of such Registrar.

(5) This section shall apply in the case of any child which
has issued forth from its mother after the expiration of the
twenty-eighth week of pregnancy, whether alive or dead.

(6) Any expenses incurred by a prescribed person in
the execution of this Act shall be paid out of moneys provided
by Parliament.

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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

PRESCRIBED PERSONS REGULATIONS

made under section 4

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Prescribed Persons
Regulations.

2. The prescribed persons under section 4 (1) of the Act shall
be one of the following persons, that is to say:

(a) the father of the child if he is actually residing in
the house where the birth took place at the time
of its occurrence;

(b) the nearest relative of the mother present;
(c) any person in attendance upon the mother at the

time or within six hours after the birth;
(d) the Medical Practitioner if any, in attendance;
(e) the Licensed Midwife, if any; or
(f) in default of any of the above-mentioned persons,

then the occupier of the premises.

3. The prescribed person under section 4 (2) of the Act in
every area* in which the Act has effect shall be one of the following:

(a) the District Medical Officer;
(b) the District Registrar of Births and Deaths; or
(c) the Officer in charge of the Police Station.

G. 22.2.17.

Citation.

Prescribed
persons under
S.4(1).

Prescribed
persons under
S.4(2).

* Areas proclaimed under the Act—Port-of-Spain, Proc. No. 27-1917. San Fernando,
Proc. No. 26-1922.

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