THE BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT, 1886 · REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS — C.—Mode of registration
Section 21 — Persons authorised to give notice of death
Any of the following persons may give notice of a death, namely:—
(a)any relative of the deceased having knowledge of any of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death;
(b)any person present at the death;
(c)any person occupying, at the time of the death, any part of the house wherein the death occurred and having knowledge of the deceased having died in the house;
(d)any person in attendance during the last illness of the deceased:
(e)any person who has seen the body of the deceased after death.