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Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953
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Changes and effects yet to be applied to Section 23A:
- s. 23A(2)(a)(b) amendment to earlier affecting provision 2009 c. 25, Sch. 21 para. 16(2) by 2022 c. 35 s. 39(6)(c) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. The amendment to s. 23A(2) by 2009 c. 25, Sch. 21 para. 16(2) remains prospective.)
- s. 23A(2)(a) (b) substituted by 2009 c. 25 Sch. 21 para. 16(2)
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Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):
- s. 1(2)(a)(aa) substituted for s. 1(2)(a) by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 2(2) (This S.I. is amended by S.I. 2014/560, Sch. 1 para. 34 and S.I. 2019/1458, reg. 19(2)(a))
- s. 1(4) inserted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 2(4) (This S.I. is amended by S.I. 2019/1458, reg. 19(2)(b))
- s. 2A-2E inserted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 4 (This S.I. is amended by S.I. 2019/1458, reg. 19(4))
- s. 9(3A) inserted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 10(2) (This S.I. is amended by S.I. 2019/1458, reg. 19(5))
- s. 9(6) inserted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 10(3)
- s. 10(1)(h) and word inserted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 11(2)(d)
- s. 10(1B)(g) and word inserted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 11(3)(d)
- s. 10(1C) inserted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 11(4)
- s. 10(1C) s. 10(2)(b) words substituted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 11(5)
- s. 10(1C) s. 10(2A)(b) words substituted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 11(5)
- s. 10B 10C inserted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 13 (This S.I. is amended by S.I. 2019/1458, reg. 19(7))
- s. 18(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision 2009 c. 25, Sch. 21 para. 10(5) by 2022 c. 35 s. 39(6)(a) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. The insertion of s. 18(2) by 2009 c. 25, Sch. 21 para. 10(5) remains prospective.)
- s. 23(4) inserted by 2022 c. 35 s. 44
- s. 36(aa) inserted by 2009 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 15
[F123AGiving of information concerning a death to a person other than the registrarE+W
(1)Subject to subsection (2) of this section, any person required by or under this Act to give information to the registrar of the particulars required to be registered concerning a death may give that information by making and signing in the presence of and delivering to such officer as may be prescribed a declaration in writing.
(2)A declaration shall not be made under this section unless the officer in whose presence the declaration is to be made has in his possession—
(a)if no post-mortem examination of the deceased person’s body is made by virtue of section 19 of the Coroners Act 1988 M1, a copy of the certificate delivered to the registrar under subsection (1) of section 22 of this Act; or
(b)if a post-mortem examination of the deceased person’s body is so made, a copy of the certificate delivered to the registrar under subsection (3) of section 23 of this Act;
and the registrar shall, if so requested by the officer in whose presence the declaration is to be made, supply to that officer a copy of the certificate mentioned in paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, paragraph (b) of this subsection.
(3)The officer in whose presence a declaration is made under this section shall send the declaration to the registrar who shall in the prescribed manner enter the death in the register.
(4)An entry made under the last foregoing subsection shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been signed by the person who signed the declaration and a person making a declaration under this section shall be deemed to have given information concerning the death to the registrar and to have complied with any requirement of the registrar made under this Act to attend and give that information.
(5)Where the person by whom a declaration under this section is made is a relative [F2or the partner] of the deceased person, he shall be deemed, for the purposes of determining his qualification to give the information given by making the declaration, to be in the sub-district where the death occurred.
F3(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]
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F1S. 23A inserted (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1996/2395, art. 3
F2Words in s. 23A(5) inserted (16.4.2024 for specified purposes, 9.9.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(4)(e), Sch. 21 para. 16(3) (with s. 180); S.I. 2024/516, arts. 2(d)(i), 3(h)(i)
F3S. 23A(6) repealed (16.4.2024 for specified purposes, 9.9.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(4)(e), Sch. 21 para. 16(4), Sch. 23 Pt. 1 (with s. 180); S.I. 2024/516, arts. 2(d)(i), 3(h)(i)
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