[size=14.6667px]We wish to clarify that Section 10(1) of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act stipulates that “any surname of a child to be entered in respect of the registration of the birth of the child shall be that of the father of the child; but where the child is illegitimate and the father is not an informant of the birth, the surname, if any, shall be that of the mother of the child.”