[Rev. 2012] Births and Deaths Registration CAP. 149 4. Deleted by Act No. 7 of 1990, Sch. 5. Appointment of registration areas and registrars (1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, appoint any area to be a registration area for the purposes of this Act. (2) The Minister may appoint fit and proper persons to be the registrars and deputy registrars for each registration area and a fit and proper person to be the registrar of births and deaths occurring outside Kenya. 6. Register books to be supplied to registrars (1) The Principal Registrar shall provide each registrar with such register books and forms as may be required, and with such instructions as he may consider necessary, for the registration of births and deaths in his registration area. (2) Every registrar shall keep safely each of the said register books until it is filled, and shall then deliver it to the Principal Registrar to be kept by him with the records of his office. [L.N. 462/1963, Act No. 21 of 1966, First Sch., Act No. 26 of 1968, s. 3, Act No. 7 of 1990, Sch.] REGISTRATION 7. Register of births and deaths (1) It shall be the duty of every registrar to keep a register of births and a register of deaths and to enter therein, respectively, the prescribed particulars of every birth and death notified to him. (2) The registrar appointed to register births and deaths occurring outside Kenya shall keep a register of births occurring outside Kenya and a register of deaths occurring outside Kenya. 8. Period for registration A registrar shall not register a birth or death after the expiration of six months from the date of such birth or death, except upon receiving the written authority of the Principal Registrar issued in accordance with the rules, and upon payment of the prescribed fee. [Act No. 15 of 1961, Sch., Act No. 26 of 1968, s. 4, Act No. 14 of 1971, Sch., Act No. 7 of 1990, Sch.] 9. Compulsory registration of births (1) Deleted by Act No. 7 of 1990, Sch. (2) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare that from a date to be named in the notice the registration of births of all persons in Kenya of any particular race, class, tribe or group, or of all or some of the inhabitants of any particular town, district or area, shall be compulsory. [L.N. 299/1956, L.N. 172/1960, Act No. 7 of 1990, Sch.] 10. Mode of registration of births Every person notifying the birth of a child shall, to the best of his knowledge and ability, give the prescribed particulars, which shall be entered forthwith by the B8 - 6 [Issue 2]