The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987

Declaration and registration under section 9 of the Act

13.—(1) The officer before whom a declaration for the purposes of section 9(1) of the Act (giving of information to a person other than the relevant registrar) may be made shall be–

(a) in a case where not more than three months have elapsed from the date of the birth, any registrar other than the relevant registrar;

(b) in any other case, any superintendent registrar other than the relevant superintendent registrar.

(2) The officer before whom the declaration is to be made shall–

(a) enter in the declaration the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth, using an approved form for the purpose;

(b) show or read the particulars entered on the form to the informant and correct any error or omission, requiring the informant to initial any amendment and then to sign the declaration;

(c) attest the declaration himself;

(d) send the declaration to the relevant registrar in accordance with section 9(2) of the Act.

(3) Where it appears to the relevant registrar that the particulars contained in the declaration are in any material respect not proper to be registered, he shall return the declaration to the officer before whom it was attested together with a note of the matters in which it appears to need amendment, and–

(a) that officer shall then in the presence of the declarant amend any error by striking out any incorrect particulars and inserting the correct particulars;

(b) any amendment so made shall be initialled by the declarant, and the declaration shall be returned to the relevant registrar.

(4) On receiving the declaration the registrar shall, subject to paragraph (3), enter the particulars of the birth in the register in the following manner–

(a) in spaces 1 to 13 of form 1, he shall enter the particulars as appearing in the corresponding spaces of the declaration, except that where any particulars have been corrected in pursuance of paragraph (3) he shall enter in the register only the particulars as corrected, omitting any incorrect particular which has been struck out and the initials of the declarant;

(b) in space 14 of form 1 (signature of informant)–

(i) he shall enter the name of the declarant in the form in which he signed the declaration and shall add the words “by declaration dated ... ... ... ...”, inserting the date on which the declaration was made and signed,

(ii) if, pursuant to section 9(4) of the Act(1), a request made under paragraph (b) or (c) of section 10 of the Act(2) was included in the declaration, he shall after the words required by head (i) make the same addition as, on completion of registration under Regulation 10, would be required under (as the case may be) head (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (1)(b) of that Regulation.

(5) If–

(a) not more than three months have elapsed from the date of the birth, the registrar shall enter in space 15 the date on which the entry is made and shall sign the entry in space 16 of form 1, adding his official description;

(b) more than three but not more than twelve months have elapsed from the date of the birth, the registrar shall make the entry in the presence of the relevant superintendent registrar and both officers shall sign the entry in space 16 of form 1 and shall add their official descriptions;

(c) more than twelve months have elapsed since the date of the birth–

(i) the registrar shall not make the entry until he has received the written authority of the Registrar General to register the birth,

(ii) on receiving the authority the registrar shall make the entry in the presence of the relevant superintendent registrar,

(iii) below the date of registration in space 15 the registrar shall enter the words “On the authority of the Registrar General”, and

(iv) the superintendent registrar and registrar shall sign the entry in space 16 of form 1 and shall add their official descriptions.

(1)

Section 9(4) was added by section 93(3) of the Children Act 1975 (c. 72).

(2)

Paragraph (b) of section 10 was substituted by section 27(1) of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 and paragraph (c) was added by section 93(1) of the Children Act 1975.