Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965

13 Particulars of births to be registered

(1) For every registration district there shall be kept by the district registrar—

(a) a register of births, and

(b) a register of still-births,

containing such particulars as may be prescribed for them respectively; and the prescribed particulars of the birth of every child born in Scotland shall, subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, be registered by the registrar in the relevant register kept for the appropriate district, or, if there are two appropriate districts, in the relevant register kept for either of them.

(2) In the foregoing subsection, and in the following provisions of this Part of this Act, " the registrar " in relation to the birth of any child means the district registrar for the appropriate district, or, if there are two appropriate districts, the district registrar for either of them ; and any reference in the following provisions of this Part of this Act to the register of births or stillbirths in relation to the birth of any child shall be construed as a reference to the register in which the particulars of the birth are, or may be, registered in pursuance of the said subsection.

(3) For the purposes of the foregoing subsections the appropriate districts in relation to the birth of any child shall be—

(a) the registration district in which the birth took place, and

(b) any other registration district in which the mother of the child was ordinarily resident at the time of the birth, and

(c) in a case where a living infant child is found exposed, or the body of a dead infant child is found, and the place in which the birth took place is not known, the registration district in which the child, or, as the case may be, the body of the dead child, was found.

(4) Where a child is born (whether within or out of Scotland) in a ship, aircraft or land vehicle in the course of a journey, and that child is brought by such ship, aircraft or land vehicle to any place in Scotland, the birth shall, unless the Registrar General otherwise directs, be deemed for the purposes of this section to have occurred at that place.