Section 57, The National Civil Registration Act, 2016

A Registration Officer shall, on production to him of suchevidence as appears to him to be satisfactory, cause the death outside Sierra Leone of a citizen domiciled in Sierra Leone to be registered in the Register of Deaths if- (a) there was not at the time of the death a system of registration of deaths in the place where the death occurred or a system that applied to such death, or (b) it is not possible to obtain copies of or extracts from civil records of the death.