The Merchant Shipping (Returns of Births and Deaths) Regulations 1979

Contents of returns

6.  A return of a birth or of a death required to be made under these Regulations—

(a)shall be in writing;

(b)shall be signed by the master of the ship as informant; and

(c)shall contain—

(i)(in the case of a birth) the particulars specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations; or

(ii)(in the case of a death) the particulars specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations;

or so many of those particulars as the master may reasonably be able to obtain, having regard to the circumstances of the birth or of the death.