10(1)Section 9 of the 1953 Act (giving of information to a person other than the registrar) is amended as follows.
(2)After subsection (3) insert—
“(3A)Anything that section 2B (duties of unmarried mother when acting alone) requires to be done in the presence of, or in relation to, the registrar may, in prescribed cases, be done in the presence of, or in relation to, such officer as may be prescribed.”
(3)After subsection (5) insert—
“(6)Regulations under section 2C, 2D, 2E, 10B or 10C may enable anything that would otherwise be required or authorised to be done under the regulations in the presence of, or in relation to, the registrar to be done instead in the presence of, or in relation to, such officer as may be prescribed by the regulations.”