Part VIIInformation
The Registration Service
125Regulations as to notification of deaths
(1)
Regulations F1made with the concurrence of the Inland Revenue may provide that it shall be the duty of any of the following persons—
(a)
the Registrar General for England and Wales;
(b)
the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland;
(c)
each registrar of births and deaths,
to furnish the Secretary of State, F2or the Inland Revenue, for the purposes of their respective functions under the Contributions and Benefits Act F3, the Jobseekers Act 1995, F4the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 F5, the Social Security Act 1998 F6, the State Pension Credit Act 2002 F7, Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 F8, Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 F9, Part 4 of that Act F10, Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014 F11, section 30 of that Act and this Act and the functions of the Northern Ireland Department under any Northern Ireland legislation corresponding to F12any of those Acts, with the prescribed particulars of such deaths as may be prescribed.
(2)
The regulations may make provision as to the manner in which the times at which the particulars are to be furnished.