Births and Deaths Registration Act 1926 (c. 48)

5 Burial of still-born children. E+W

It shall not be lawful for a person who has control over or who ordinarily buries bodies in any burial ground to permit to be buried or to bury in such burial ground a still-born child before there is delivered to him [F1 (either physically or as a copy in an approved electronic form)] [F2 either—

(a) a certificate given by the registrar under section 11(2) or (3) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, or

(b) in a case in relation to which a senior coroner has made enquiries under section 1(7) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (or has purported to conduct an investigation under Part 1 of that Act), an order of the coroner.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 5 inserted (1.12.2021) by The Births and Deaths Registration (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1231), arts. 1(2), 2(4)

F2 Words in s. 5 substituted (25.7.2013) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(4)(e), Sch. 21 para. 4 (with s. 180); S.I. 2013/1869, art. 2(o)(i)