http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/25/enactedIndustrial Diseases (Notification) Act 1981Registration of deathsHealth and safety at workKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2019-02-28 1981 Chapter 25 An Act to make further provision for regulations concerning the notification and certification of death and for the recording of information relating to industrial disease; and matters related thereto. [2nd July 1981] Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 1 The Secretary of State, or with his approval the Registrar General, may make by statutory instrument regulations concerning the notification and certification of death and for the recording of information relating to industrial diseases and matters related thereto. 2 1 This Act may be cited as the Industrial Diseases (Notification) Act 1981. 2 In this Act " Registrar General " means— a in England and Wales, the Registrar General for England and Wales; and b in Scotland, the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland. 3 This Act does not apply to Northern Ireland.