5.—(1) The Registrar General may, on request, search the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries in the birth register and provide a record of the information contained in an entry in those copies, to a Government department (including the Welsh Government but not including a Northern Ireland department or any part of the Scottish Administration), in electronic format.
(2) The record of information that may be provided under paragraph (1) may be in a format that does not include all of the information contained in the birth record entry.