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(1) For every place for the disposal of the dead registered in the register kept under section 566 a municipal officer shall be appointed, whose duty it shall be to receive information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death of every person whose corpse is disposed of at such place. Information of birth to be given within seven days. Information respecting finding of new-born child to be given. Officers to be appointed to receive information of deaths at places for disposal of dead. 388 [Act No. II of 1956] (2) If the Commissioner shall not think fit to require the municipal officer so appointed to be in constant attendance at any place for the disposal of the dead for which he is so appointed, there shall be affixed to a conspicuous part of the entrance to such place a notice specifying the name of the officer so appointed for the said place and the address where he may be found.