The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987

PART XIV MISCELLANEOUS

Information under the Population (Statistics) Act 1938

69.—(1) Where a draft of the particulars to be registered concerning a birth or death is prepared pursuant to Regulation 3, then, except in the case of–

(a) the registration of the death of a child under the age of 16 years;

(b) the registration of a live-birth or death which occurred more than 12 months previously;

(c) the re-registration of a birth or death on the authority of the Registrar General,

the superintendent registrar or registrar concerned shall require the informant to furnish to him such other particulars specified in the Schedule to the Population (Statistics) Act 1938(1) as are appropriate to the registration and within his knowledge and shall enter the information so furnished on an approved form.

(2) The superintendent registrar or registrar concerned shall show or read to the informant the particulars entered on the form and shall correct any error or omission.

Forms to be sent to the Registrar General

70.—(1) The registrar shall send to the Registrar General any forms prepared pursuant to Regulations 3 and 69–

(a) in the case of a live-birth, not later than the Saturday of the week following the week in which he registered the birth; and

(b) in the case of a still-birth or death, not later than the Saturday of the week in which he registered the still-birth or death.

(2) With the forms referred to in paragraph (1)(b) there shall be sent–

(a) Parts IV and V of any coroner’s certificate after inquest furnished under section 23(1) of the Act;

(b) Parts III and IV of any coroner’s certificate after inquest adjourned furnished under section 20(4) of the Coroners (Amendment) Act 1926(2);

(c) any coroner’s certificate as to the result of criminal proceedings furnished under section 20(5) or 20(7)(b) of that Act,

together with such particulars as are necessary to identify the entry and register to which that information relates.

Quarterly returns

71.  For the purposes of section 26(1) of the Act (quarterly returns to be made by registrars to superintendent registrars)–

(a) the forms of a true copy of all the entries of live-births, still-births and deaths made in the registers during a period shall be forms 1, 9 and 13 respectively and any such copy shall be certified by the registrar completing a form in form 23, signing and dating the form in the space provided;

(b) the form of certificate that no birth, still-birth or death has been registered in a sub-district during that period shall be form 24.

Offences and proceedings

72.—(1) If it appears to a superintendent registrar or a registrar that any offence under or breach of–

(a) the Act or the Population (Statistics) Act 1938(3); or

(b) so far as they relate to the registration of births and deaths, the Perjury Act 1911(4) or the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981(5),

has been committed, he shall report the matter to the Registrar General and shall deliver to the Registrar General such documents in his possession relating to the offence or breach as the Registrar General may require.

(2) Except with the authority of the Registrar General, a superintendent registrar shall not commence any proceedings in respect of an offence under the Act.

Revocations and transitional provisions

73.—(1) The regulations specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 to these Regulations are hereby revoked to the extent mentioned in column 3 of that Schedule.

(2) Any form prescribed by any regulation revoked by paragraph (1) which is not also prescribed by any preceding provision of these Regulations but which is in use immediately before the commencement of these Regulations for any purpose for which these Regulations provide may continue to be used for that purpose as a prescribed form under these Regulations up to and including 31st December 1988.

(1)

1938 c. 12; the Schedule was substituted by the Schedule to the Population (Statistics) Act 1960 (c. 32).

(2)

1926 c. 59; section 20 was substituted by Schedule 10 to the Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45).

(3)

1938 c. 12.

(4)

1911 c. 6.

(5)

1981 c. 45.