Vocational Education Act, 1930

Inspection and copies of registers of births and deaths.

120.—(1) Every superintendent registrar or registrar of births or deaths or other person having the custody of the register books kept in accordance with the Births and Deaths Registration Acts (Ireland), 1863 to 1880, shall at all reasonable times permit any attendance officer under Part V of this Act or Part VI of this Act to inspect, without fee or other payment, the register books in the custody of such superintendent registrar, registrar or other person and to take such copies or notes of entries in such books as he shall deem necessary for the purpose of the execution of his duties, as such attendance officer.

(2) Whenever—

(a) any person requires to ascertain or prove for any purpose arising under Part V of this Act the age of a young person who resides in a district to which that Part applies; or

(b) any person requires to ascertain or prove for any purpose arising under Part VI of this Act the age of a person to whom that Part applies and who is employed in a district to which that Part applies;

such person shall be entitled to obtain from the enforcing authority for such district a requisition in the prescribed form for a certified copy of the entry of the birth of such young person or such person to whom Part VI . of this Act applies (as the case may be) and shall, on presenting such requisition duly filled up and signed together with a fee of sixpence at the office of the superintendent registrar or the appropriate registrar of births and deaths, be entitled to be supplied by such superintendent registrar or registrar with a copy duly certified under the Births and Deaths Registration Acts (Ireland), 1863 to 1880, of the entry in the register books kept under those Acts of the birth of such young person or persons.

(3) Every superintendent registrar or registrar of births and deaths shall, as and when so required by an enforcing authority under Part V of this Act, furnish to such authority a return in the prescribed form (if any) of such of the particulars as shall be specified by such authority of the births and deaths of young persons registered by such registrar.

(4) Every superintendent registrar or registrar of births and deaths shall, as and when so required by an enforcing authority under Part VI of this Act, furnish to such authority a return in the prescribed form (if any) of such of the particulars as shall be specified by such authority of the births and deaths of persons to whom Part VI of this Act applies registered by such registrar.