The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987

Correction of minor clerical errors after completion E+W

55.—(1) Where it appears or is represented to the superintendent registrar or the registrar that in any completed entry made on or after 1st April 1969 in a register of live-births, still-births or deaths in his custody there is any clerical error to which this Regulation applies he shall, except where paragraph (4) applies, correct the error as provided in Regulation 54(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e) whichever is appropriate.

(2) The clerical errors to which this Regulation applies are–

(a) any error–

(i) in spelling any word which is not the name or surname of any person, or

(ii) consisting of the misplacement or incorrect repetition of any such word,

made on entering the particulars other than by copying from a document specified in sub-paragraph (f);

(b) the incorrect statement or omission–

(i) in the date of registration, of the day or the month (but not both) provided it is evident from the preceding and succeeding entries which day or month should have been inserted,

(ii) of the year of the birth or death to which an entry relates or of the year of registration (but not of both);

(c) the omission of all the words required to be added, in space 14 of a birth entry, by Regulation 10(1)(b)(ii), 13(4)(b) or 17(2)(b)(i);

(d) the omission of any of the words (including the date) required to be added, following the entry of a name in space 17 of a birth entry, by Regulation 14(2)(a) or (b);

(e) the omission of any of the words (including the name, surname and description of the coroner) “Certificate on inquest adjourned received from ... ... ... ...” required to be added, in space 7 of a death entry, by Regulation 45(b)(ii);

(f) any error in copying any particulars required to be copied from–

(i) a declaration made in accordance with Regulation 13,

(ii) a certificate of name given in baptism, or a certificate of name given other than in baptism, delivered in pursuance of section 13(1) of the Act(1),

(iii) a certificate of cause of death,

(iv) a doctor’s or midwife’s certificate of still-birth,

(v) a coroner’s notification after post-mortem without inquest; or

(vi) a coroner’s certificate after inquest;

(g) any error, in space 14 of a birth entry, in copying the date of a statutory declaration as required by Regulation 10(1)(b)(ii) or 17(2)(b)(i),

and the references in this paragraph to provisions of these Regulations include any corresponding provision of regulations revoked by these Regulations.

(3) Where any correction is made under paragraph (1), other than one to which paragraph (4) applies, the superintendent registrar or registrar concerned shall write in the margin of the entry a note in the following form–

• “Error in ... ... ... ...corrected on ... ... ... ...by me Superintendent Registrar [or Registrar]”,

and shall complete and sign the note in the places provided.

(4) Where the clerical error relates to an entry required to be made by any of regulations 20, 22 and 23 the superintendent registrar or the registrar concerned shall–

(a) send a report to the Registrar General enclosing a copy of the entry; and

(b) correct the entry as directed by the Registrar General.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 55 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1

(1)

Section 13(1) was amended by Schedule 2 to the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1242).