Section 10: Time limit for registration

(1)
It shall be the duty of any person required to give information concerning any birth, to give to the registrar before the expiration of a period of sixty days from the date of the birth, information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth:
Provided that the giving of information and the signing of the register by any one qualified informant shall act as a discharge of any duty under this section of every other qualified informant.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, a birth may be registered after the expiration of-
(a) sixty days and within twelve months after the birth by the registrar or the Deputy Chief Registrar in whose custody the relevant register of births may be at the time the report for registration is received and subject to the payment of such fees as may be prescribed;
(b) twelve months therefrom with the authority of the Deputy Chief Registrar and subject to the payment of such fees as may be prescribed.