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The Civil Registration Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

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GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO ENTRIES IN REGISTERS

Manner of registration

4.  The particulars to be registered concerning a birth, still-birth or death shall be recorded by means of a separate entry made —

(a)in typescript; or

(b)in any other manner as may be specified by the Registrar General.

Additional particulars concerning a birth or a still-birth

5.  The additional particulars required by Article 10(4)(b)(ii) of the 1976 Order to be supplied to the registrar concerning a birth or a still-birth shall be those particulars specified in Schedule 2.

Making of entries on the authority of the Registrar General

6.  Where the Registrar General issues his written authority for the registration or re-registration of any event, the particulars which are recorded in the authority shall be entered in the register on the attendance of such qualified informant, if any, as the Registrar General may specify.

Form of registers

7.  A register of births, still-births or deaths shall be comprised of —

(a)the original respective entries; or

(b)copies thereof made or compiled by electronic means or made by means of photography, xerography, microfilming or any similar method of reproducing documents as the Registrar General may specify.

Cancellation of entry space

8.  Where on the registration of a birth, still-birth or death it appears that particulars are not required to be entered in any space on the appropriate form, a horizontal line shall be entered in that space.

Notation of original entries following re-registration

9.  Where a birth, still-birth or death is re-registered on the authority of the Registrar General such notation as the Registrar General may direct shall be made in the margin of the original entry and a notation so made shall for all purposes be deemed to be part of the entry.

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