Civil Registration Act 2004
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Recording and registration of certain other deaths occurring outside State. |
39.—(1) Regulations shall require such persons as may be specified to keep specified records of— | |
(a) the death of a person on board an Irish aircraft or an Irish ship, | ||
(b) the death of an Irish citizen on board a foreign ship or a foreign aircraft travelling to or from a port, or an airport, as the case may be, in the State, and | ||
(c) the death of a member of the Garda Síochána or the Permanent Defence Force or of the spouse or specified members of the family of such a member outside the State while the member is serving outside the State as such member. | ||
(2) Regulations shall provide for the transmission of copies of records referred to in subsection (1), certified by specified persons to be true copies, to an tArd-Chláraitheoir. | ||
(3) An tArd-Chláraitheoir shall cause to be entered in the register the required particulars relating to deaths to which records referred to in subsection (1) relate. | ||
(4) Regulations shall provide for the correction of errors in records kept under subsection (1) and for the transmission of copies, certified by specified persons to be true copies, of records corrected under this subsection to an tArd-Chláraitheoir. | ||
(5) On receipt of a corrected record under subsection (4), an tArd-Chláraitheoir shall cause a correct entry that takes account of the corrected record to be entered in the register and the then existing entry relating to the death concerned shall be retained in the register. | ||
(6) In this section— | ||
“foreign aircraft” means an aircraft which is not an Irish aircraft; | ||
“foreign ship” means a ship which is not an Irish ship; | ||
“Irish aircraft” means an aircraft registered in the State; | ||
“Irish ship” has the meaning assigned to it by the Mercantile Marine Act 1955 . |