SCHEDULE Particulars which may be required

Section 1.

1

On registration of a birth (including a still-birth)

a

in all cases the age of the mother;

b

where the name of any person is to be entered in the register of births as father of the child, the age of that person;

c

except where the birth is of an illegitimate child—

i

the date of the parents’ marriage;

ii

whether the mother had been married before her marriage to the father of the child;

iii

the number of children of the mother by her present husband and by any former husband, and how many of them were born alive or were still-born.

2

On registration of death

a

whether the deceased was single, married, widowed or divorced;

b

the age of the surviving spouse, if any, of the deceased C1.