The BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT, 1886

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS

Section 21: Persons authorised to give notice of death.

Any of the following persons may give notice of a death, namely:—

(a) any relative of the deceased having knowledge of any of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death;

(b) any person present at the death;

(c) any person occupying, at the time of the death, any part of the house wherein the death occurred and having knowledge of the deceased having died in the house;

(d) any person in attendance during the last illness of the deceased:

(e) any person who has seen the body of the deceased after death.