Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886
21. Persons authorized to give notice of death
Any
of the following persons may give notice of a death, namely:-
(a)
any relative of the deceased having knowledge of any of the particulars
required to be registered concerning the death;
(b)
any person present at the death;
(c)
any person occupying, at the time of the death, any part of the house wherein the
death occurred and having knowledge of the deceased having died in the house;
(d)
any person in attendance during the last illness of the deceased;
(e)
any person who has seen the body of the deceased after death.