The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009

Amendment to regulation 9

7.—(1) Regulation 9 (Entry of particulars on registration within three months of date of birth) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph 4 substitute —

“(4) With respect to space 4 (father’s, or other parent’s, name and surname) —

(a) If, other than in a case to which sub-paragraph (b) applies, the father or other parent acquired after the child’s birth a name or surname different from their name at the date of the birth, the registrar shall enter in space 4 the name and surname as at the date of birth followed by the name and surname as at the date of registration preceded by the word ‘now’; or if the father or other parent has died between the birth and the date of registration and changed their name between the birth and their subsequent death, their name and surname at birth is provided followed by the word “afterwards” and then their name at the date of their death is inserted into space 4;

(b) In the case of a request made under paragraph (d), (e), (f) or (g) of section 10(1) or paragraph (d), (e), (f) of section 10(1B) and upon production of a declaration in Form 6A, the registrar shall enter in space 4 of Form 1, the name and surname of the father or putative father or other parent or putative other parent as appropriate and as recorded in the parental responsibility agreement mentioned in section 10(1)(d)(i) or 10(1B)(d)(i) or the orders mentioned in section 10(1)(e)(i), (f)(i), (g)(i),or section 10(1B) (e)(i) or (f)(i).

(c) In the case of a request under section 10ZA of the Act (Registration of father or second female parent by virtue of certain provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008) the registrar shall enter in space 4, as the father or other parent of the child, the name and surname as at the date of death, of the man who is the father or the woman who is the other parent.”

(3) In paragraph 4A after “section 10(1)” insert “, and paragraphs (d) to (f) of section 10(1B)”.

(4) For paragraph(5) substitute—

“(5) With respect to spaces 5 and 6 (father or other parent’s place of birth and occupation)—

(a) In a case to which section 10(1) or 10(1B) of the Act applies, the registrar shall not complete spaces 5 and 6 unless the name and surname of the father, or other parent, of the child have been entered in space 4 pursuant to either of those sections;

(b) If either the father or the other parent was deceased at the date of the birth the registrar shall enter in space 6 the word ‘deceased’;

(c) If the father or other parent has changed their occupation since the birth of the child, the registrar shall in space 6, after the occupation as at the date of the birth, enter the occupation as at the date of registration, preceded by the word ‘now’.”

(5) For paragraph (7) substitute “With respect to space 9(b) (mother’s surname at marriage or civil partnership if different from maiden surname) the surname to be entered shall be that in which the mother contracted her marriage to the father, or in which she entered her civil partnership with the other parent of the child.”

(6) For paragraph (8) substitute—

“(8) For space 13 (informant’s usual address) —

(a) the address required is the address at registration of the birth;

(b) if under sections 10(1)(a) or 10(1B)(a) of the Act an entry of the father or other parent has been made, the registrar shall enter the father’s or other parent’s address followed by the mother’s address if different;

(c) except as provided by sub-paragraph (b), the registrar shall not enter the address of the informant if that address is the same as the mother’s usual address.”