Cap. 16 Art. 287Foundlings.

(1) Where any new-born child is found, the officer charged with the duty of drawing up the acts of birth in the place where such child is found, shall, with the assistance of one or more

Government District Medical Officers, draw up an act to be styled

"repertus", according to Form D in Part II of the First Schedule to this Code.

(2) In such act the said officer shall enter the following particulars- the apparent age and the sex of the child, the name given by him to the child, the place where the child was found, the person or institution in whose charge the child was placed, whether the child bore any apparent mark, the kind of clothing and any other object found on the person of the child.

(3) Such act shall also be delivered to the Director for registration as in the case of an act of birth.