The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Registration Act Amendment Act 1869.”

The eighteenth section of “The Registration Act 1858” is hereby repealed.

If any child whose birth shall have been registered in accordance with the provisions of the said Act without a Christian or first name shall within twelve calendar months next after it shall have been so registered have any such name given to it the person who shall have signed the original entry or the parent or guardian of such child may at any time within twelve calendar months from the original registration of the birth but not afterwards cause the name so given to be added by the Registrar to the entry on payment of a fee of two shillings and sixpence Provided always that the person on whose information any such name shall be added in the Register Book shall sign his or her name to the record of such addition in the column headed “Name if added after Registration of Birth.”

The fifteenth section of “The Registration Act 1858” is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is enacted as follows After the said period of sixty-two days following the day of the birth of any child born in the Colony it shall not be lawful for any Registrar to register such birth unless the parent or some person who was present at such birth shall make a solemn declaration to the best of his knowledge and belief of the particulars required to be registered and upon such declaration being made and a fee of ten shillings and sixpence paid it shall then be lawful for the Registrar before whom such declaration is made to register the birth according to the information of the person making the same Provided always that if such Registrar shall be satisfied that at the time of the birth of such child or at any time thereafter and before the expiration of sixty-two days from such birth there was not any Registrar or Deputy Registrar qualified to register the birth of such child and acting for the district where such birth ought to have been registered and that such parent or other person is then applying to register the birth within a period which (excluding the period after such birth during which there has been no Registrar or Deputy Registrar qualified and acting as aforesaid) is not more than sixty-two days from such birth the Registrar shall register the birth without any fee.

The sixteenth section of the said “Registration Act 1858” shall be read and construed in the same manner as if this last preceding section had been inserted therein instead of the fifteenth section hereby repealed.

This Act shall be construed with and read as part of “The Registration Act 1858.”