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Provided that—
(a) where the Act is adopted by the council of a county the county
medical officer of health shall be substituted for the medical officer
of health of the district, and the expenses of the execution of the
Act shall be paid as general county expenses or special county
expenses, as the case requires; and
(b) if, where the Act has been adopted by the council of a county for
any county district, the council of the district, or, where the Act
has been adopted by the council of a county district for their
district, the council of the county, subsequently apply to the Local
Government Board to be made the authority for th purposes of
this Act, the Board may, if they think fit, make an order declaring
that the Act shall take effect as if it had been adopted by the
council of the county district instead of the council of the county,
or by the council of the county instead of the council of the county
district, as the case may be, ant on any such order being made the
Act shall take effect in accordance with the order.
(5) In London, the medical officer of health of every metropolitan borough
(including the city of London) in which this Act is in force for the time being
shall send weekly to the London County Council, in a form prescribed by the
Local Government Board, a list of all notices of birth received by him under
this Act during the past week.
3. The Local Government Board may by order declare that this Act shall be
in force in the area of any local authority who have power to adopt the Act,
although it has not been so adopted, if they think it expedient, having regard
to the circumstances of the area, and in that case the order of the Local
Government Board shall have the same effect for the purpose as a resolution
of adoption duly passed by the local authority of the area and assented to by
the Local Government Board.
Extract of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874.
Registration of Births.
Section 1.—(Information concerning birth to be given to Registrar within
forty-two days.) In the case of every child born alive after the commencement
of this Act it shall be the duty of the father and mother of the child, and in
default of the father and mother, of the occupier of the house in which to his
knowledge the child is born, and of each person present at the birth, and of
the person having charge of the child, to give to the Registrar, within fortytwo
days next after such birth, information of the particulars required to be
registered concerning such birth, and in the presence of the Registrar to sign
the register.
Section 18.—(Burial of deceased children as still-born.) A person shall not
wilfully bury or procure to be buried the body of any deceased child as if it
were still-born.