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(1) Subject to subsection (2) of section 19 of this Act, upon the receipt of the prescribed particulars required under section 17 of this Act or the certificate, if any, under section 18 of this Act, the Registrar, if he is satisfied as to the particulars or the certificate, as the case may be, shall register the death.

(2) The Registrar shall as soon as a death is registered issue:-

(a) a burial permit free of charge in the prescribed form, and

(b) a death certificate in the prescribed form on payment of the prescribed fee.

(3) Where the body of a deceased person has been removed into Ghana from some place outside of Ghana for disposal, and no order has been given by a coroner in respect thereof, the Registrar of the district in which it is intended to dispose of the body, if it appears that the death is not required by law to be registered in Ghana, shall upon application by the person procuring the disposal and upon payment of the prescribed fee issue a burial permit.[As substituted by the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1965 (Amendment) Decree, 1968 (NLCD 285), s.8]