Registration of Unregistered Death

Such death can be registered when it was not registered within the period of three months of the death occurred.

The declaration relevant to the death should be handed over within the period not more than 25 years from the death occurred.(except a sudden death)

The declaration should be forwarded to the Additional District Registrar of the relevant Divisional Secretariat relevant to the place of death.

Persons who can be presented for the declaration

• The next of kin who was presented at the time of death or given attendant care when he was at sick at the last moment.
• Others who is enthusiastic on that matter.

The fees for the declaration is Rs.60.00

Declaration shall be forwarded to the Additional District Registrar of the Divisional Secretariat relevant to the place which the death occurred.

Declaration shall be forwarded by one of the persons mentioned below.

• The person who was provided the information for registration of the incident
• The confidential person who is known the truth on the matter.

All the information except the date of registration in a death register ,can be alternated.

Fees for the declaration is Rs.60.00

Written evidence for proofing the bona fides of the request made from the declaration shall be forwarded with the declaration.

As sufficient evidences  are not available to confirm the disappearing of some persons as a death, or  due to the relations are dislike to register a death certificate for those persons , as a result of that,  the relation of them have to face various problems  due to un availability of any registered legal document regarding  the persons who are disappeared.

Provisions has been provided by the following Acts, regarding the issuing of death certificate or a certificate as disappeared for such persons.

• Registration of Deaths (Temporary Provisions) Act No.19 of 2010
• Registration of Deaths Temporary Provisions) ( (Amendment )  Act No.16 of 2016

Request can be made based on the information revealed by the Commission of Registration  and Investigation of deaths of disappeared persons or special president council or the office on disappeared persons ,who were reported as  disappeared as a result of the impacts occurred in Northern  and Eastern  provinces or consequence to the same conflicts or political unrest or civil riots or disappearing make by force or disappearance of the members of tri forces or police who were at the operation   and the persons who were disappeared due to natural disasters or calamity .

Certificate of disappearance should be applied by a relation of a disappeared person.

 N. B - According to the definition of Section 14 of the Act, “ The relation” is,

• The spouse
• Children including adopted children, children of unmarried parents or step - children
• Parents, step- mother, step-father, the person who was  taken the child for adoption.
• Full or half brothers or sisters  or adopted brothers or sisters
• Father-in-law, mother-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law,sons-in-law, daughters –in-law,
• Grand sons,grand daughters and grand mothers and grand fathers

Method of applying

Application should be made for the registration of  persons who has been elapsed one year from disappearance, “Certificate of  disappearance“ (COA) or certificate of Death, to the District Registrar of the area of which the place of disappeared person resided at last or the area of his permanent residence.

Additional documents to be forwarded with the application (Section 8 b of the Act)

• Affidavit (Annexure 02)
• Grama Niladhari Report
• Other evidences to proof the request
• Certified copies of the determination of the Commissions