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The Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1997
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- 1997 No. 2348 (S. 157)
- Regulation 2
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2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–
“the Act” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965;
“birth” does not include a still-birth;
“name” means Christian name or forename;
“district registrar” has the same meaning as in the Act;
“still-born child” means a child which has issued forth from its mother after the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy and which did not at any time after being completely expelled from its mother breathe or show any other signs of life; and the expression “still-birth” shall be construed accordingly.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations–
(a)to a numbered section is to a section bearing that number in the Act; and
(b)to a numbered Schedule is to a Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations.
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