38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, s. 28. 
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of age, except to the parent of such child, or to the personal 
representative of such parent, and upon the production by 
such parent or his personal representative of a certificate of 
death issued by the registrar of deaths, or other person 
having the care of the register of deaths, containing the 
particulars after mentioned. 
(3.) Particulars of certificates.—Whenever a certificate of 
the death of a child is applied for for the purpose of obtain 
ing a sum of money from a society [or branch], the name of 
such society [or branch], and the sum sought to be obtained 
therefrom, shall be stated to the registrar of deaths, who 
shall write on or at the foot of such certificate the words, 
“ to be produced to the Society” [or branch] (naming 
the same) “said to be liable for payment of the sum 
of pounds ” (stating the same), and all certificates of 
the same death shall be numbered in consecutive order, and 
the sum charged by the registrar of deaths for each such 
certificate shall not exceed one shilling (c). 
(4.) Registrars of deaths only to give certificates in certain 
cases.—No registrar of deaths shall give any one or more 
certificates of death for the payment in the whole of any 
sum of money exceeding six pounds on the death of a child 
under five years, or for the payment in the whole of a sum 
exceeding ten pounds on the death of a child under ten 
years ; and no such certificate shall be granted unless the 
cause of death has been previously entered in the register 
of deaths on the certificate of a coroner or of a registered 
medical practitioner who attended such deceased childduring 
its last illness, or except upon the production of a certificate 
of the probable cause of death, under the hand of a registered 
medical practitioner, or of other satisfactory evidence of 
the same (d). 
(°) Further provision as to the sums to be charged by regis 
trars of deaths is made by sect. 8 of the Act of 1876. See 
p. 127. 
(d) Tile provision that “ other satisfactory evidence’' of death 
may be accepted by the registrar of deaths, is one likely to lead 
to mischief unless great caution be exercised in the reception of 
such evidence.