Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953

5 Registration of births free of charge

Where the registrar receives personally from any qualified informant, at any time before the expiration of three months from the date of the birth of any child or from the date when any living new-born child is found exposed, information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth of the child, then, subject as may be prescribed in the case of an alleged still-birth where no certificate such as is mentioned in subsection (1) of section eleven of this Act is delivered, he shall forthwith register the birth and the particulars, if not previously registered, in the prescribed form and manner without any fee or reward from the informant:

Provided that if in pursuance of a request in writing the registrar registers the birth—

(a) at the residence of the person making the request; or

(b) at the house at which the birth took place, that house not being a public institution,

the informant shall pay to the registrar a fee of one shilling and sixpence.