The Civil Registration Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Manner of re-registration

30.—(1) Where the Registrar General authorises the re-registration of an event under Article 18, 19, 19A or 31 of the 1976 Order, the re-registration shall be effected in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.

(2) Where the particulars which are to be registered are to be verified by a qualified informant who is in Northern Ireland the re-registration shall be effected by the registrar at whose office the qualified informant may conveniently attend, and the following regulations (which relate to the verification of particulars, signatures and the entry of names) shall apply to the re-registration of events as they apply to the registration thereof, namely —

(a) in the case of a birth, regulation 12(4);

(b) in the case of a still-birth, regulation 12(4) as applied by regulation 16(2);

(c) in the case of a death, regulation 25(2) and (3)(a).

(3) Subject, in the case of a birth, to Article 18(1)(b)(ii) of the 1976 Order, where the particulars which are to be registered are to be verified by a qualified informant who is not in Northern Ireland, the qualified informant may, with the consent of the Registrar General, —

(a) verify those particulars, by making and signing a declaration of the particulars to be registered, before an authority specified in regulation 14(4)(b) or (c), on a form provided by the Registrar General, and

(b) send the form to the Registrar General

and the re-registration shall be effected by any registrar on the direction of the Registrar General, and in the space in the register which relates to the signature of the qualified informant there shall be entered the name of the declarant in the form in which it is signed in the declaration, followed by the words “by declaration dated” and the date on which the declaration was made.

(4) Subject, in the case of a birth, to Article 19(3) of the 1976 Order, where no qualified informant is available to verify the particulars to be registered, the re-registration shall be effected by any registrar on the direction of the Registrar General, and the space in the register which relates to the signature of a qualified informant shall be completed by entering —

(a) in the case of a death registered on the authority of a coroner’s certificate after inquest, the words specified in regulation 27(1)(b) or 2(c) as the case may be; or

(b) in any other case, the words “On the authority of the Registrar General”.

(5) In any entry made in accordance with the provisions of this regulation, the words “On the authority of the Registrar General” shall be entered following the date of registration.