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The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987
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- 1987 No. 2088
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- Sch. 2 Form 1 substituted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 24 Sch. 1
- Sch. 2 Form 2 substituted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 24 Sch. 1
- Sch. 2 Form 6A substituted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 24 Sch. 1
- Sch. 2 Form 6B substituted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 24 Sch. 1
- Sch. 2 Form 9 substituted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 24 Sch. 1
- reg. 2A 2B inserted by S.I. 2021/1436 reg. 2(3)
- reg. 3(1)(b) substituted by S.I. 2021/1436 reg. 2(4)(a)
- reg. 3(2)(b) substituted by S.I. 2021/1436 reg. 2(4)(b)
- reg. 9(4A) words inserted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 7(3)
- reg. 9(7)(a) omitted by S.I. 2019/1458 reg. 18(2)(a)
- reg. 9(7)(b) words inserted by S.I. 2014/3061 Sch. 1 para. 7
- reg. 9(7)(b) words inserted by S.I. 2019/1458 reg. 18(2)(b)
- reg. 10(a) words inserted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 8(2)
- reg. 10(c) substituted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 8(3)
- reg. 10(d) inserted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 8(4)
- reg. 17(2A) reg. 17(2)(b) renumbered as reg. 17(2A) by S.I. 2021/1436 reg. 2(8)(a)(iii)
- reg. 17(7) words omitted by S.I. 2012/1203 reg. 11(3)
- reg. 17(9)(d) words omitted by S.I. 2012/1203 reg. 11(4)
- reg. 17(9)(e) omitted by S.I. 2012/1203 reg. 11(5)
- reg. 21(6) inserted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 15
- reg. 33A inserted by S.I. 2012/1203 reg. 13
- reg. 34(4)(c)(ii) words inserted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 19(2)
- reg. 34A(4)(c)(iii) words substituted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 19(3)
- reg. 34A(4)(c)(ii) words inserted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 19(1)
- reg. 42(3)(ba) word substituted by S.I. 2014/107 Sch. 1 para. 11(4)(b)
- reg. 42(3)(bc) inserted by S.I. 2009/2165 reg. 20(4)
- reg. 42A(3)(a) words omitted by S.I. 2021/1436 reg. 2(13)
- reg. 50(a)(aa) substituted for reg. 50(a) by S.I. 2021/1436 reg. 2(16)
- reg. 61(4) inserted by S.I. 2006/2827 reg. 23(2)
Certificates of death for certain purposesE+W
68.—(1) The relevant officer shall without charge provide with an approved form a person who wishes to apply for the issue of a certificate of death for the purposes F1... of Schedule 5 to the 1974 Act.
(2) A relevant officer shall not issue such a certificate to an applicant unless the applicant certifies in the application that–
(a)he is the child, grandchild or stepchild of the person to whose death the application relates; and
(b)he is entitled to claim under an insurance taken out by him on or after 1st January 1924 on the life of that person.
(3) Except as provided in paragraph (4) more than one certificate of death shall not be issued to the same person for the purposes F2... of Schedule 5 to the 1974 Act.
(4) Where a person to whom a death certificate has been issued for the purposes F3... Schedule 5 to the 1974 Act makes and delivers to the relevant officer a statutory declaration stating–
(a)that the certificate has been lost or destroyed;
(b)whether any endorsement has been made on the certificate and, if so, by what registered society, branch or company; and
(c)that if the original is recovered he will surrender it for destruction to the superintendent registrar or the registrar,
the relevant officer shall issue to that person a duplicate of the certificate on an approved form.
(5) Where the statutory declaration states that on the certificate which the duplicate replaces an endorsement has been made by a registered society, branch or company, the relevant officer shall record on the duplicate certificate a requirement that it is to be produced to that society, branch or company for the endorsement to be repeated on the duplicate.
(6) Where a certificate of death is issued under this Regulation the relevant officer shall keep a record on an approved form of–
(a)the number of the entry in the register in respect of which the certificate is issued;
(b)the serial number of the certificate;
(c)the name of the person to whom it was issued and his relationship to the deceased.
(7) In this Regulation–
F4(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b)“the 1974 Act” means the Friendly Society Act 1974;
(c)“the relevant officer” means the superintendent registrar or the registrar having custody of the register in which the death is registered.
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F1Words in reg. 68(1) omitted (1.12.2001) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Savings) (Industrial Assurance) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3647), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 22(a)
F2Words in reg. 68(3) omitted (1.12.2001) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Savings) (Industrial Assurance) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3647), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 22(a)
F3Words in reg. 68(4) omitted (1.12.2001) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Savings) (Industrial Assurance) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3647), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 22(a)
F4Reg. 68(7)(a) omitted (1.12.2001) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Savings) (Industrial Assurance) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3647), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 22(b)
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