Present: Akbar J.

PERERA v. PERERA BALASURIYA.

19-D. C. Colombo, 1583 (Special).

    Registration of births-Application for rectification-Insertion of the name of the father-Ordinance No. 1 of 1895, s. 22.

An application for the rectification of the registration of the birth of a child by the insertion of the name of the father may be made to the District Court under section 22 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Ordinance, No. 1 of 1895.

APPEAL from an order of the District Judge of Colombo.

Weerasooria, for petitioner, appellant.

April 25, 1929. AKBAR J.-

This was an application to the District Court under section 22 of the Births and Deaths Ordinance, No. 1 of 1895, whereby the applicant applied to the District Court to cause an entry in the births register to be rectified. The entry in question referred to the birth of the applicant's child on July 5, 1922. The father of this child is the first respondent, and the petitioner was unmarried at the time of the birth. On December 20 the first respondent and the petitioner married and the marriage was registered. This is an application to enter the name of the first res