The Register of Presumed Deaths (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2014

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Register of Presumed Deaths (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st October 2014.

(2) In these Regulations:

“the Act” means the Presumption of Death Act 2013;

“maiden surname” means the surname with which a woman entered into her first marriage or civil partnership and, where a woman entered into a civil partnership and then a marriage (or a marriage and then a civil partnership), it means the surname with which she entered into the first of these legal relationships.

Prescribed information: entries in the Register of Presumed Deaths

2.—(1) The information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) and 1(2)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Act, so far as such information is determined by the court(1) in a particular case, is set out in the Schedule.

(2) If the information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) is provided by the court to the Registrar General in Welsh, it must also be provided in English.

Prescribed information: Variation Orders

3.—(1) The information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Act is any change to the information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) of that Schedule.

(2) If that information is provided by the court to the Registrar General in Welsh, it must also be provided in English.

Approved by

James Brokenshire

Minister of State

Home Office

5th September 2014

Made by

Paul Pugh

Registrar General

5th September 2014