Cap. 16 Art. 298Certificate of person presumed dead.

(1) If after the disappearance of a person a magisterial enquiry is held and the enquiring magistrate is of the opinion that, taking all the circumstances of the disappearance into consideration the conclusion is that the person is probably dead, then a copy of the shall be transmitted by the enquiring magistrate procès-verbal to the officer charged with the drawing up of the act of death and such officer shall, within two days from the receipt of the copy of the draw up according to Form G in Part II of the procès-verbal, First Schedule to this Code a provisional act of death of the person whose disappearance has been established by the procès-verbal. The same officer shall, within two days from the drawing up of the said provisional act of death, deliver the same to the Director for registration.

(2) The provisional act of death shall become final after the lapse of one year from the date of registration.

(3) For the purposes of this article the enquiring magistrate shall indicate in the all the particulars mentioned in procès-verbal paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of article 301 and the probable time, date and place of the disappearance of the person concerned.