Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976

PART IINTRODUCTORY

1Title and commencement

2Interpretation

PART IITHE REGISTRATION SERVICE

3Registrar General of Births and Deaths

4General Register Office and officers

5Registration districts and registration authorities

6Registrars and other staff

7Financial provisions

8Registrars' offices

9Delivery up of books, etc., on ceasing to hold office

PART IIIREGISTRATION OF BIRTHS

10Registration of births

11Infant children found exposed

12Issue of notice for information concerning births

13Registration after one year from birth

14Registration of father where parents not married or civil partners

14ZARegistration of second female parent where parents not civil partners

14ARegistration of father or second female parent by virtue of certain provisions of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008

15Special provisions as to still-births

16Registration of still-birth after reference to coroner

17Disclosure of information

18Re-registration of births

19Re-registration of births of legitimated persons

19ARe-registration after declaration of parentage

20Registration of births of legitimated persons

PART IVREGISTRATION OF DEATHS

21Registration of deaths

22Preliminary notice of death

23Issue of notice for information concerning deaths

24Registration after one year from death

25Certificates of cause of death

26Informant's position following an inquest

27Informant's duty where coroner issues statement or certificate

28Entry of cause of death as set out in coroner's statement or certificate

29Certificate of registration of death

30Information about burials

31Re-registration of deaths

33Reproduction of registers and replacement of lost registers, etc.

34Searches of indexes and certified copies of entries

34AAccess to information relating to births and deaths

35Correction of entries in registers

36Correction or cancellation of entries in registers on motion of certain officers

37Registration or alteration of child's name

38Examination of entries in registers

39Certified copies

40Short birth certificate

40AShort death certificate

40BNotification of births and deaths

41Entries in registers as evidence

42Proof of age or death for purposes of certain statutory provisions

43Offences relating to registers

44Refusal to give information

45Forgery, etc., of documents under this Order

46Time limit for commencing summary proceedings

47Fees payable for searches, certified copies, etc.

Art.48, with Schedule 2, effects repeals

SCHEDULE 1STATUTORY PROVISIONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF WHICH PROOF OF THE AGE OR DEATH OF ANY PERSON MAY BE REQUIRED

Schedule 2—Repeals

1976 No. 1041 (N.I. 14)

Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 C1 F1

[2nd July 1976]

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1

functions transf. SR 1993/494

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1

Order modified (temp.) (26.3.2020) by Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 87(2), Sch. 13 para. 21(3) (with ss. 88-90, Sch. 13 para. 30); S.I. 2020/361, reg. 2(a)