The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987

Attendance and particulars on re-registration

19.  Where under section 14(1) of the Act(1) the Registrar General authorises the re-registration of the birth of a legitimated person–

(a) except where Regulation 21 or 23 applies, and subject to section 14(2) of the Act(2) (personal attendance as required by the Registrar General), a parent of the legitimated person shall attend personally at the office of the relevant registrar for re-registration of the birth within such time as the Registrar General may direct;

(b) Regulation 7(2) shall apply as to the particulars to be recorded in respect of the parents except that–

(i) in space 6 of form 1, the occupation of the father need not be recorded as at both the date of birth and the date of the entry,

(ii) in space 7 of form 1, the surname to be recorded in respect of the mother of the child shall be her surname immediately after her marriage to the father, and

(iii) in space 9(b) of form 1, the surname (if any) to be entered shall be that in which the mother contracted her most recent marriage prior to re-registration.

(1)

Section 14(1) was amended by section 1(2) of the Legitimation (Re-registration of Birth) Act 1957 (c. 39); by paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 1 to the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18); and by paragraph 13(3) of Schedule 3 to the Children Act 1975 (c. 72).

(2)

Section 14(2) was amended by section 1(2) of the Legitimation (Re-registration of Birth) Act 1957 (c. 39).