Population (Statistics) Act 1960

Section 1.

SCHEDULE Particulars which may be required

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

1 (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.

On registration of death

2 (a) whether the deceased was single, married, widowed or divorced;

(b) the age of the surviving spouse, if any, of the deceased.