The Civil Registration Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(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.