The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987

Certificates of death for certain purposes E+W

68.—(1) The relevant officer shall without charge provide with an approved form a person who wishes to apply for the issue of a certificate of death for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the 1948 Act and of Schedule 5 to the 1974 Act.

(2) A relevant officer shall not issue such a certificate to an applicant unless the applicant certifies in the application that–

(a) he is the child, grandchild or stepchild of the person to whose death the application relates; and

(b) he is entitled to claim under an insurance taken out by him on or after 1st January 1924 on the life of that person.

(3) Except as provided in paragraph (4) more than one certificate of death shall not be issued to the same person for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the 1948 Act and of Schedule 5 to the 1974 Act.

(4) Where a person to whom a death certificate has been issued for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the 1948 Act and Schedule 5 to the 1974 Act makes and delivers to the relevant officer a statutory declaration stating–

(a) that the certificate has been lost or destroyed;

(b) whether any endorsement has been made on the certificate and, if so, by what registered society, branch or company; and

(c) that if the original is recovered he will surrender it for destruction to the superintendent registrar or the registrar,

the relevant officer shall issue to that person a duplicate of the certificate on an approved form.

(5) Where the statutory declaration states that on the certificate which the duplicate replaces an endorsement has been made by a registered society, branch or company, the relevant officer shall record on the duplicate certificate a requirement that it is to be produced to that society, branch or company for the endorsement to be repeated on the duplicate.

(6) Where a certificate of death is issued under this Regulation the relevant officer shall keep a record on an approved form of–

(a) the number of the entry in the register in respect of which the certificate is issued;

(b) the serial number of the certificate;

(c) the name of the person to whom it was issued and his relationship to the deceased.

(7) In this Regulation–

(a) “the 1948 Act” means the Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948(1);

(b) “the 1974 Act” means the Friendly Society Act 1974;

(c) “the relevant officer” means the superintendent registrar or the registrar having custody of the register in which the death is registered.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 68 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1

(1)

1948 c. 39.