Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976

Registration districts and registration authorities N.I.

5.—(1) Each local government district shall be a registration district for the purposes of the registration of births and deaths and the district council shall be the local registration authority for those purposes.

(2) A district council shall, in the exercise of the functions conferred on it as a local registration authority,—

(a) act as agent for the Department; and

(b) act in accordance with such directions as the Department may give to the council;

and any expenditure to be incurred in the exercise of those functions shall be subject to the approval of the Registrar General.