Civil Status Act (Chapter 34)
Seychelles
Civil Status Act
Chapter 34
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Commenced on 22 April 1893
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[Amended by Civil Code of Seychelles (Consequence of Enactment) Act, 2021 (Act 24 of 2021) on 1 July 2021]
This Act may be cited as the Civil Status Act. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires"Act" means an act of the civil status;"affidavit" includes solemn affirmations;"district" means the electoral area assigned to a branch civil status office or other civil status office for the purpose of registration of matters concerning the civil status of persons;[inserted by section 2(a)(i) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000]"judicial department" includes the Supreme Court and any other court that may exist in Seychelles and the registries thereof;"gazetted" means published in the Seychelles Government Gazette;"interment" includes cremation;[inserted by section 2(a)(ii) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000]"the court" means the Supreme Court;"judge" means a Judge in Chambers;"magistrate" means any judicial officer exercising magisterial powers;"oath" includes solemn affirmations;"office" means office of the civil status;"officer or civil status officer" means officer of the civil status;"Outer Islands" means the islands or groups of islands listed in Part II of the First Schedule of the Constitution of the Republic of Seychelles;[inserted by section 2(a)(iii) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000]"register" means register of the civil status. The civil status office existing at Victoria at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed the Central Civil Status Office for Seychelles, and any branch, additional or other civil status office, existing shall be deemed a branch, additional or other civil status office referred to in this Act. Whenever it shall be urgent during the prevalence of any epidemic disease, to provide for the prompt and immediate fulfilment of the legal formalities required previous to the burial of bodies, it shall be lawful for the President to appoint in any part of Seychelles as many temporary assistant civil status officer as may be required, concurrently with the then existing officers, to receive declarations of deaths and deliver permits of burials. The Chief Officer of the Civil Status, every civil status officer, and any clerk acting as such shall be deemed public functionaries, and be entitled to the protection and be liable to the responsibilities and penalties which by any law are provided with regard to public functionaries. It shall be the duty of the Chief Officer of the Civil Status to enforce the provisions of this Act. He shall report to the Commissioner of Police any offence against this Act, and to the Minister any neglect of duty committed by any person charged with such duty, and any irregularity or omission appearing in any register. [section 10(3) repealed and substituted by section 2(c)(ii) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] An officer shall not receive, draw up and register any act in which his own status or that of any of his ancestors, parents, descendants, sisters or brothers shall be concerned, but such act may be received by any other officer.This article shall not apply to any outlying island where there is only one person competent to act as civil status officer. Every officer charged with the keeping of any register of births, deaths or marriages shall prepare current alphabetical indexes of the content of such registers, and every entry in such indexes shall be made immediately after the act to which it relates has been registered. The said indexes shall be closed at the end of each year and shall be in duplicate. In the case of a district or additional office one of such duplicates shall be kept with the records of his office, and the other shall together with the duplicate of the register be sent to the Chief Officer of the Civil Status. The Chief Officer of the Civil Status shall within twelve months after the commencement of this Act prepare a decennial alphabetical table with statistical abstracts of all deaths, births, marriages, adoptions and divorces which have occurred during the ten years ending the 31st December, 1892, and afterwards, shall prepare a similar decennial table within the first six months after each tenth year from the 31st December, 1891.The said tables and abstracts shall be prepared and registered in accordance with forms prepared by the Chief Officer of the Civil Status.Such alphabetical tables both annual and decennial shall further be typed, and a copy of the same sent to every office to be kept there and open to the public for information. The officer in every district or additional office, and in the central office the Chief Officer of the Civil Status shall immediately after the last act entered in the register draw up, date and sign a memorandum in which the number of acts entered in the register shall be recorded. The Minister or any officer deputed by him, the Chief Justice, a magistrate, and any Justice of the Peace, the Chief Officer of the Civil Status, the Attorney General, and the Auditor General, shall have power at any time, to examine, inspect and verify the registers of any civil status officer. All errors, omissions, or irregularities discovered in the course of inspection under the preceding section shall be at once made known to the Minister, who will thereupon refer the matter to the Attorney General for any action that may be necessary in order to have the register rectified. [section 23 repealed by section 2(d) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] In every act the year, month and day of receiving the same, shall be stated, as well as the names, surname, national identity number, profession and residence of all persons therein mentioned.[section 24 amended by section 2(e) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] It shall not be lawful for any officer to mention or record in any act either as a note or as a statement in the body of the act anything beyond what the parties are bound to declare to him. In any case in which the parties interested are not bound by law to appear in person they may be represented before the officer by an agent expressly appointed to represent them by an authentic deed. Persons appearing as witnesses to any act must not be under eighteen years of age; the witnesses may be selected by the parties, and relatives may be so selected. Any act of the civil status drawn up in any country out of Seychelles shall be deemed valid as an act of the civil status if it has been drawn up in accordance with the law in force in such country. The birth may be declared by the father and mother together, or if the father is not known, the mother alone, by any medical practitioner, midwife or other person having been present at the birth or by the owner or occupier of the premises on which the birth took place.The act of birth shall be drawn up forthwith in the presence of two witnesses. No fee or duty of any kind shall be charged by the officer for receiving such declaration and drawing up the act of birth. In the act shall be mentioned the day, hour and place of birth, the sex of the child, the names given to it, the names, surnames, national identity numbers, profession and residence of the father and mother and those of the witnesses.[section 33 amended by section 2(g) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] Where a birth is declared or registered under this part, the officer to whom it is declared or by whom it is registered shall inform— Whenever the birth of a natural child shall be declared every officer is hereby expressly forbidden to mention in the act of birth the name of the father, unless the father consents to such mention, either by appearing and signing or marking the act, either personally or by agent appointed under an authentic deed to sign for him.Where any such deed is produced mention thereof shall be made in the margin of the act of birth and the original or copy of the authority shall be kept by the officer. If any person receive or take charge of an infant whose birth has not been declared and registered or cannot be ascertained, every such person shall be deemed to have found a newborn child, and shall be bound to fulfil the formalities and make the declarations required in section 31, and shall in default thereof incur the penalties mentioned in the said section:Provided that if it be subsequently discovered that the birth of such child has been declared and registered, the second registration shall upon an order of a judge be cancelled by the Chief Officer of the Civil Status. The provisions of section 39 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply whenever any birth shall take place on board of any aircraft registered in Seychelles during a flight and while the aircraft is not in an airport in Seychelles, as if the references in that section to "the master" "ship" and "harbour" were references respectively to "the pilot", "aircraft" and "airport".[section 39A inserted by section 2(h) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 40 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 41 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 42 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 43 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 44 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 45 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 46 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 47 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 48 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 49 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 50 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 51 repealed by section 2(k) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 52 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 53 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 54 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 55 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 56 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 57 repealed by section 2(m) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000 and by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 58 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 59 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 60 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 61 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 62 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 63 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 64 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 65 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 66 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021]} [section 67 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 68 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 69 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 70 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 71 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 72 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 73 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 74 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 75 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 76 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 77 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 78 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] [section 79 repealed by section 1(b) of Act 24 of 2021] it shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the police station of the district wherein the death occurred to cause the same to be registered. The owner or occupier of any premises in which any death shall happen, shall be bound before twenty-four hours have elapsed after such death, to give notice thereof to the officer of his ward and it shall be his duty to send two persons who have been present at the death, or in attendance during the last illness of the deceased, to declare the said death.The same duty shall fall to every owner, occupier, or manager of any rural property, and of every establishment in town or in the country. [section 87 repealed by section 2(s) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] It shall be the duty of the Chief Officer of the Civil Status to keep and issue separate books or registers wherein shall be entered the causes or probable causes of death, each entry in such separate register bearing a number corresponding with the number of the act of death to which the same relates. If the death of any person deceased in Seychelles has not been registered before interment, it shall not be lawful to register such death except upon an order of a judge or magistrate. Mention of the order shall be made in the margin of the act. When the body of a person who has died out of Seychelles is brought to Seychelles for interment, the death of such person may be registered in the central office in conformity with this Act and thereupon a permit of burial may be issued. If within the prescribed period no opposition is made to the application, or if any such opposition is made but is not considered well founded and if it further appears that there are any good and sufficient grounds in support of the application, the Chief Officer of the Civil Status may grant such application and authorise the proposed change and addition. The Chief Officer of the Civil Status shall cause to be gazetted any decision by him authorising any such change and addition.Thereupon the name authorised to be borne by the applicant shall thenceforth be deemed his name, and the surname of family name as altered or added to in conformity with such decision shall thenceforth be the surname or family name of the applicant and that of his wife and children and of any other person by law entitled to bear the surname or family name of such applicant. Nothing herein contained shall affect the right of any person to assume and bear any surname or family name which he may be entitled to assume and bear under any contract of marriage, testament or donation. When a notice authorising a change or addition of name or surname or family name has been published under section 97 the Chief Officer of the Civil Status shall forthwith inscribe in the margin of the act of birth of the applicant and of any other act concerning such applicant, the alteration or addition authorised by such notice. A judge may, upon the written application of the Chief Officer of the Civil Status or any party, order the amendment without any fee, stamp or registration due of any act whenever such judge shall be satisfied that any error has been committed in any such act or in the registration thereof. Nothing herein contained shall prevent any interested person from asking by action before the Supreme Court for the rectification or cancellation of any act.[section 100 amended by section 2(v) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] It shall be lawful for the Attorney General to dispute the validity of any act or to require the rectification or annulment thereof whenever he shall deem it fit. Every proceeding by or on behalf of the Attorney General for any purpose aforesaid shall be by motion and rule calling upon the parties interested to show cause against such application. In no case in which the Attorney General deems fit to act or is called upon to act, with respect to matters relative to the civil status, or otherwise with respect to the provisions of this Act, shall any liability for costs or damages be incurred by the Attorney General or by Government, in any way or upon any ground whatsoever. Any order of a judge or magistrate or judgment of the court for the amendment, rectification or annulment of any act shall not be binding upon any interested party who shall not have either moved or applied for such order or judgment or shall not have been made a party to it. Any such order or judgment shall be entered verbatim in a special register, which shall not be a duplicate register and a summary mention of the amendment, rectification of annulment decreed shall be made in the margin of the act in every register in which such act has been registered. Whenever it shall be discovered that either before or after the commencement of this Act any act has not been entered, filed up, signed or otherwise completed in any register by the officer having charge of such register, a judge may upon the application of the Chief Officer of the Civil Status authorise by an order in writing, any officer for the time being in charge of the register to enter, fill up, sign or otherwise complete any such acts in any such registers. The officer who ought to have entered, filled up, signed or otherwise completed any such act shall be liable for the costs of any such application to the judge and of any further proceedings that may become necessary upon such application:Provided that nothing herein contained shall bar any criminal prosecution to which such officer may be liable under this Act or the Penal Code. All acts entered, filled up, signed and otherwise completed under the above provisions shall be as valid as if such acts had been, at the time of the declaration, entered, filled up, signed and otherwise completed in conformity with this Act. Any officer who— shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees. Any minister of religion who shall celebrate a marriage in articulo mortis otherwise than in strict conformity with the provisions of this Act or who shall fail to send to the officer of the civil status the act of any such marriage as required shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees. Every person who shall wilfully destroy or injure or cause to be destroyed or injured any register of the civil status or any instrument connected therewith, shall be deemed guilty of an offence and on conviction shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding two years. Sections 335, 337 and 347 of the Penal Code shall be applicable to any officer who— Any person not being an officer who— Any person who— shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years. Any person who, having found a newborn child, shall neglect to make the declarations and fulfil the formalities required of him by section 36 shall be guilty of and on conviction liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred rupees or imprisonment not exceeding six months. Whoever shall bury or otherwise dispose of any human body without having obtained a permit from an officer of the civil status, or before or after the period required under section 80, or in any unauthorised burial ground, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or by imprisonment not exceeding six months. Whoever shall conceal, privately bury or otherwise dispose of the body of a person killed, or who has died from the effects of any blow or wound, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years. If any person makes opposition to a marriage without having a right under the laws of Seychelles to oppose the marriage, or if it appears to the court that the opposition is made maliciously, the court may inflict upon such opposing party a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees besides costs of suit. If any master of a ship registered in Seychelles or the officer replacing such master and being in command of the said ship neglects, upon his arrival in any harbour in Seychelles, to declare to the civil status officer of the place the deaths or births which have occurred on board the said ship before his arrival in the aforesaid harbour and if any such master or officer has neglected to comply with the provisions of this Act respecting deaths or births in ships registered in Seychelles, the master or officer shall incur a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees. In any case of a suspicious, or violent or sudden death, the persons declaring such death, when acquainted with the circumstances of such death who shall fail to disclose such circumstances, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months. If any person attempts to commit any offence for which the punishment of imprisonment is provided in this Act, such person shall be liable to be punished as if he had been guilty of the full offence whenever such attempt has been made manifest by a commencement of execution and has been suspended or has failed in its effect only by circumstances independent of the will of such person. Persons who in any of the ways referred to in the Penal Code, shall be accomplices in any offence for which the punishment of imprisonment is provided in this Act, shall be liable to the punishment provided for such offence in the same manner as if such offence was one provided for by the Penal Code. It shall be the duty of the Chief Officer of the Civil Status, of every judge or magistrate, of every officer and of every police officer to report to the Commissioner of Police every offence against this Act of which they may become aware. The Commissioner of Police shall inquire into every offence against this Act which has been reported to him, or in any other way brought to his cognisance or touching which it may appear that information ought to be obtained. The Commissioner of Police shall report to the Attorney General all offences against this Act brought to his knowledge, the steps taken by him in connection therewith and the result of such steps, and the Attorney General shall by virtue of his office have power to issue such instructions as he is empowered to issue under any law in force in Seychelles. [Part IX repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 128 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 129 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 130 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 131 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 132 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 133 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 134 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 135 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 136 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 137 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 138 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 139 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 140 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 141 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 142 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 143 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 144 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 146 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 147 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 148 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 149 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 150 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 151 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 152 repealed by section 2(w) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 153 repealed by section 2(w) of 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 154 repealed by section 2(w) of 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 155 repealed by section 2(w) of 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 156 repealed by section 2(w) of 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [heading amended by section 2(x) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] [section 159 amended by section 2(z)(iii) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000] It shall be the duty of all persons empowered by this Part to issue permits of interment to satisfy themselves as far as possible as to the cause of death before granting such permit. No permit shall be issued under this Part by a manager or occupier for the burial of any person who shall have died from any of the causes mentioned in section 80 without reference to the nearest police authority, unless such reference is absolutely impossible on account of distance or impossibility of communication:Provided that, whenever such reference is impossible, the manager or occupier shall inquire carefully into the circumstances of the death and note appearances of the body before permitting interment, and shall draw up a memorandum of the same and forward such memorandum by the earliest opportunity to the nearest police authority. [amended by section 2(ab)(ii) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000]It shall be lawful for the President, subject to the conditions mentioned in section 162, to appoint any non-commissioned officer in charge of the any police station to act as officer of civil status for the purpose mentioned in that section:[section 163 amended by section 2(ab)(i) of Act 10 of 2000 w.e.f. 1 December 2000]Provided that every such officer shall, between the first and sixth day of each month, produce his registers of deaths to the Chief Officer of the Civil Status for inspection and such Chief Officer shall initial each act registered therein.Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
Part I – The Civil Status Department
Offices of civil status
3. Offices of civil status
4. Existing offices
Civil status officers
5. Chief Officer of Civil Status
6. Other officers may be appointed
7. Temporary officers during prevalence of epidemic disease
8. Officers of civil status to be public functionaries
Duties of the civil status officers
9. Chief Officer of the Civil Status
10. Further duties of the Chief Officer of Civil Status
11. Duties of other officers
12. When an officer cannot act
13. Yearly indexes
14. Decennial tables
Part II – Registers and Act of the civil status
Registers
15. Keeping of registers
16. Pages to be numbered
17. Closing of registers
18. Closed registers
19. Instruments to be authenticated
20. Power to verify
21. Errors, etc., to be reported
22. Extracts from registers
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Rules as to registration of declarations
24. Date, etc., to be mentioned in every Act
25. Only statements of parties to be recorded
26. When parties may be represented by agents
27. Witnesses to act
28. Act to be read to parties and signed by them
29. Acts of the civil status drawn up abroad
30. When acts are not vitiated
Part III – Acts of birth
31. Period within which declaration of birth must be made
32. Who may make declaration
33. Facts to be mentioned in act
34. Information to be given to parents
35. Declaration of birth of natural child
36. Finding of newborn child
37. Persons taking charge of infant
38. Birth in prisons, etc
39. Birth on board ship registered in Seychelles
39A. Birth on board an aircraft
Part IV – Acts of marriage
Qualifications and conditions necessary for contracting marriage
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Publication
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Oppositions to marriage
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Dispensations
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Proof of consent of parents, guardians, etc.
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Celebration of marriage
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Legitimation of natural children in act of marriage
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Fees
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Marriages in articulo mortis
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Part V – Acts of death
80. Conditions of interment
81. Registration of death
82. Registration in cases of sudden death
83. Owners and occupiers to declare deaths
84. Death in prisons, etc
85. Deaths in quarantine stations
86. Deaths on board registered ships
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88. Dead bodies
89. Register of causes of death
90. Deaths not duly registered before interment
91. Death out of Seychelles, registration, interment
Part VI – Divorce, acknowledgment of children adoption, and changes with respect to names
92. Copy of judgment to be sent to Chief Officer of Civil Status
Acknowledgment of natural children
93. Registration of acknowledgment
Change of name
94. Application for change of name
95. Notice of application in Gazette
96. Chief Officer of Civil Status may authorise proposed change
97. Notice of authorisation to be published
98. Proviso relative to name assumed under contract of marriage, testament and donation
99. Chief Officer of Civil Status to rectify acts of civil status
Part VII – Amendment and cancellation of acts of the civil status
100. Amendment of Acts
101. Powers of Attorney General
102. Costs
103. Judgment not binding upon parties not called
104. Amendment to be noted in margin of act
105. Completing acts left incomplete
106. Costs of proceeding to be borne by officer in fault
107. Acts completed under Judge's order to be valid
Part VIII – Offences and penalties
108. Penalty against officer for breach of provisions as to registration, etc
109. Solemnising marriage in articulo mortis without complying with Act
110. Destroying or injuring acts of the civil status
111. Forgery by officer
112. Counterfeiting, altering, etc., acts
113. Penalty for making false statement or declaration
114. Concealment, substitution of children, etc
115. Penalty for concealing birth
116. When a newborn child is found
117. Burial without a permit
118. Concealing the body of a person deceased by the effect of violence
119. Penalty for obstructing marriages by unwarranted or malicious oppositions
120. Penalties with respect to masters of ships registered in Seychelles
121. Penalty for not making declarations in cases of suspicious, violent or sudden deaths
122. Attempt
123. Accomplices
124. Offences to be reported to the police
125. Inquiries by Commissioner of Police
126. Commissioner of Police to report to Attorney General. Power of direction given to Attorney General
127. Fees payable under this Act
Part IX
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Part X – Outer Islands
Special provisions relating to late registration of births and deaths
157. Orders for late registration of births
158. Rules as to permits of interment for La Digue and adjacent islands
159. Rules as to interment on Outer Islands
160. Persons granting permits to satisfy themselves as to cause of death
161. Reference to police authority in certain cases
162. Police officer in charge of stations on islands may be appointed officer of civil status for certain purposes
163. Police officers may be also given power as civil status officer