Births and Deaths Registration Act
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Births and Deaths Registration Act
Chapter 5:02
Published in Government Gazette
Commenced on 20 June 1986
[This is the version of this document from 6 March 2020.]
[Note: This version of the Act was revised and consolidated by the Law Development Commission of Zimbabwe]
[Amended by Coroner's Office Act, 2019 (Chapter 7:21) on 6 March 2020]
[Acts 11/1986, 7/1994, 6/2000, 22/2001, 6/2005]
AN ACT to provide for the registration of births and deaths in Zimbabwe and to provide for matters
incidental thereto or connected therewith.
Part I – Preliminary
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the Births and Deaths Registration Act [Chapter 5:02].
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Interpretation
(1)
In this Act—
“adopter” means a person who has adopted a child in terms of the Children’s Act [Chapter 5:06];
[definition as amended by section 34 of Act 6 of 2005]
“born” does not include still-born;
“bury” means to deposit in the ground or cremate a dead body;
“entry”, in relation to any register kept in terms of this Act, includes any information contained in
any form, certificate or other document forming part of that register;
“medical practitioner” means a person registered as a medical practitioner in terms of the Health
Professions Act [Chapter 27:19];
[definition as amended by section 151 of Act 6 of 2000]
“midwife” means a person registered as a midwife in terms of the Health Professions Act [Chapter
27:19];
[definition as amended by section 151 of Act 6 of 2000]
“Minister” means the Minister of Home Affairs or any other Minister to whom the President may,
from time to time, assign the administration of this Act;
“registrar” means the person appointed to be a registrar of births and deaths for a district and
includes a deputy registrar and an assistant registrar;
“Registrar-General” means the officer referred to in paragraph (a) of section three;
“responsible person” means the person whose duty it is to give notice of a birth, still-birth or
death in terms of section eleven, twenty or twenty-two, as the case may be;
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