Section 21 of The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 View Chapter 3

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.