Singapore legislation
Section 91
Section 91
Returns of births and deaths in ships, etc.
(1)
The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations —
requiring the master of any ship to make a return to the Director of any birth or death occurring in the ship;
requiring the master of any ship to conduct an inquiry to determine the nature and cause and make a report to the Director of any death occurring in the ship and, wherever occurring outside Singapore, of any person employed on the ship, and to notify any such death to any person that the deceased may have named as his or her next of kin; and
requiring the master of any ship not registered in Singapore which calls at Singapore in the course of or at the end of a voyage to make a return to the Director of any birth or death of a citizen of Singapore which has occurred in the ship during the voyage.
(2)
Regulations made under this section may require the Director to send a certified copy of any return made thereunder to the Registrar of Births and Deaths.
(3)
The Registrar of Births and Deaths to whom any such certified copies are sent —
must maintain the copies in a register kept by him or her for the purpose and to be called the marine register; and
may also record in that register any additional information that appears to him or her desirable for the purpose of ensuring the completeness and correctness of the register,and the provisions of any written law relating to the registration of births and deaths have effect with such modifications as are appropriate and so far as those provisions may be complied with in the circumstances as if the marine register were a register of births (other than stillbirths) or deaths, except that it is not necessary for any person to sign the register as an informant.
(4)
Regulations made under this section may contain provisions for authorising the registration of the following births and deaths occurring outside Singapore in circumstances where no return is required to be made under subsection (1) —
any birth or death of a citizen of Singapore which occurs in a ship not registered in Singapore;
any death of a citizen of Singapore who has been employed on such a ship which occurs elsewhere than in the ship; and
any death of a person who has been employed on a Singapore ship which occurs elsewhere than in the ship.
(5)
Any person who, being required under the regulations made under this section to make a return of any birth or death or a report on the inquiry into the cause of any death, furnishes as true any information in the return or report which the person knows or has reason to believe to be false shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.