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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Amendment) Decree 2014

GOVERNMENT OF FIJI

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) DECREE 2014
(DECREE NO. 18 OF 2014)

IN exercise of the powers vested in me pursuant to section 4 of the Office of the Vice-President and Succession Decree 2009 and section 165(4) of the Constitution of the Republic of Fiji, I hereby make the following Decree—

A DECREE TO AMEND THE BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT (CAP. 49)

Short title and commencement

1. This Decree may be cited as the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration (Amendment) Decree 2014 and shall be deemed to have come into force on 15 January 2014.

Insertion of new section

2. The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act (Cap. 49) Act is amended by inserting the following new section after section 13—

"Waiver of prescribed fee

13A. The Minister shall have the power to waive the payment of any prescribed fee by notice in the Gazette."

Given under my hand this 26th day May 2014.

W. D. CALANCHINI
Acting Chief Justice