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4. For paragraph 1(d) of the Schedule to the Population (Statistics) Act 1938(1) (particulars which may be required to be provided to registration officer) substitute—
“(d)where the birth is of a child to whom section 1(3) of that Act applies by reason of any marriage or civil partnership between the child’s parents—
(i)the date of the marriage or formation of the civil partnership, and
(ii)whether before she married, or formed the civil partnership with, the child’s other parent, the mother had been married to, or had formed a civil partnership with, any other person;”.
1938 c. 12; the Schedule was substituted by the Schedule to the Population (Statistics) Act 1960 (c. 32), section 1(2); paragraph 1(c) to (e) was inserted in relation to England and Wales by the Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), Schedule 6, paragraph 20(1)(b) and (2). There are other amendments to the Schedule not relevant to this Order.
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