(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations prescribe the particulars required for the registration of a birth, still-birth or death under the Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976.
They also:
prescribe the form of the various applications, certificates, declarations and notices relating to civil registrations;
describe how the various registers are to be maintained;
provide for remote access to, or the release of, the information which is held in the civil registers;
provide for applications to have a relevant event registered in the Record of Northern Ireland Connections.