(1) A Registrar of deaths shall not give any one or more certificates of death for the payment in the whole of any sum of money exceeding $50 on the death of a child under 5 years, or for the payment in the whole of a sum exceeding $75 on the death of a child of 5 years old and over, but under 10 years.
(2) A Registrar of deaths shall not grant any such certificates unless the cause of death has been previously entered in the register of deaths on the certificate of a coroner, or of a medical practitioner who attended the deceased child during its last illness, or except upon the production of a certificate of the probable cause of death under the hand of a medical practitioner, or of other satisfactory evidence thereof.