The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987

Compilation of short certificate of birth

65.—(1) A short certificate of birth under section 33 of the Act shall be compiled, from the records and registers in the custody of the Registrar General or from the registers in the custody of the superintendent registrar or registrar (as the case may be), in accordance with the following provisions of this Regulation.

(2) In the case of a certificate in form 21–

(a) opposite the words “Name and Surname” there shall be entered–

(i) where the name and surname are recorded in the birth entry, that name and surname (being, in a case where these are recorded in both spaces 2 and 17 of form 1, the name and surname recorded in space 17),

(ii) where the person’s name but not his surname is recorded in the entry, that name (being in a case where this is recorded in both columns 2 and 10 of the entry, the name recorded in column 10) followed immediately, if the entry contains a surname which appears from the entry to have been used by his father or his mother at or after the date of birth, by that surname;

(b) opposite the words “Sex” and “Date of Birth” respectively there shall be inserted the relevant particulars from the birth entry;

(c) opposite the words “Place of Birth” there shall be inserted the names of the registration district and sub-district in which the birth was registered,

so however that if the place of birth is not recorded in the birth entry, the superintendent registrar or registrar shall remit the application to the Registrar General.

(3) In the case of a certificate in form 22 (not being a certificate to which regulation 66 applies)–

(a) opposite the words “Name and Surname” there shall be entered–

(i) where the name and surname are recorded in the entry, that name and surname,

(ii) where the person’s name but not his surname is recorded in the entry, that name followed immediately by–

(aa) if the entry contains a surname which appears from the entry to have been used by his father or his mother at or after the date of birth, that surname, or

(bb) if the entry contains the surname of his adopter or (as the case may be) his adopters, and the applicant so requests, that surname;

(b) opposite the word “Sex” there shall be entered the relevant particulars contained in the birth entry;

(c) opposite the words “Date of Birth” there shall be entered the date of birth recorded in the birth entry or, if no date is recorded, such date (if any) as may appear to the Registrar General from the information recorded in the birth entry to be the probable date of birth;

(d) opposite the words “Place of Birth” there shall be entered such (if any) of the following particulars as may be appropriate–

(i) where the register or other record containing the birth entry includes particulars of the registration district and sub-district in which the birth occurred or in which the birth is treated under any enactment as having occurred, the names of that registration district and sub-district,

(ii) where the birth is recorded as having occurred on a British ship (within the meaning of section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894(1)), the words “At Sea” followed by the name of the ship on which the birth occurred,

(iii) where the birth is recorded as having occurred in an aircraft, the words “In an aircraft” followed by the particulars of the place of birth in the birth entry,

(iv) in any other case where the birth entry contains particulars as to the place of birth, those particulars,

(v) where the birth entry contains no particulars as to the place of birth, such particulars (if any) as to the country of birth as the Registrar General is satisfied can be obtained from any register or record in his custody.

(1)

1894 c. 60; section 1 was amended by Part I of Schedule 4 to the British Nationality Act 1948 (c. 56) (repealed).