Singapore legislation
Regulation 19
Regulation 19
Cancellation and surrender of death certificate
Subregulation 1
A death certificate issued under these Regulations or the repealed Act is cancelled if the Registrar‑General does either of the following in respect of the registration of the death mentioned in the death certificate:
cancels the registration of the death under section 41 of the Act; (b)alters the record of the death in the register of deaths in any way.
Subregulation 2
A person who is issued a death certificate in hard copy form under these Regulations or the repealed Act must surrender the death certificate to the Registrar‑General, within the time specified by the Registrar‑General in the notice mentioned in sub‑paragraph (b), if —
the death certificate is cancelled under paragraph (1); and (b)the Registrar-General gives written notice of the cancellation to that person.
Subregulation 3
A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to both.