The Civil Registration Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Registration of still-births following reference to the Coroner

Reference to Coroner

17.  Where a registrar is informed of an alleged still-birth and does not receive a certificate issued in pursuance of Article 15(3) of the 1976 Order, the registrar shall report the alleged still-birth to a coroner on a form provided for the purpose by the Registrar General.

Coroner’s certificate or notification

18.  Where the coroner examines or causes to be examined the body of a child, and is satisfied that the body is that of a still-born child, the form of certificate the coroner shall send to the registrar in pursuance of Article 16(1) of the 1976 Order shall be —

(a) Form 8, if an inquest has been held; or

(b) Form 9, if the coroner does not consider it necessary to hold an inquest.

Registration of still-birth where inquest is not held

19.—(1) Where a registrar receives notification in Form 8 from a coroner that the coroner does not intend to hold an inquest concerning a still-birth the registrar shall take such steps as may be required to register the still-birth.

(2) Any registration under paragraph (1) shall be made in accordance with regulation 16 except that in the entry relating to the cause of still-birth, there shall be entered —

(a) if Part A of the coroner’s notification has been completed, the words “Coroner’s Statement”, or

(b) if Part B of the coroner’s notification has been completed, the words “Coroner’s Certificate”.

Registration of still-birth after inquest

20.  Where a registrar receives a coroner’s certificate upon an inquest, from which it appears that the child was still-born, or that there was not sufficient evidence to show that the child was born alive, the particulars to be registered concerning the still-birth shall be the particulars required to be entered in Form 2, other than those particulars relating to the qualified informant.