The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc. (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made18th January 1990

Coming into force1st April 1990

The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 24, 54(1)(b) and 56 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 19651 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the approval of the Secretary of State, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc. (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.

Interpretation2

In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc. (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 19652.

Amendment of the principal Regulations3

For the form set out in Schedule 11 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

C.M. GlennieRegistrar General for ScotlandNew Register House,Edinburgh17th January 1990

Approved by the Secretary of State.

Michael B. ForsythParliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish OfficeSt. Andrew’s House,Edinburgh18th January 1990

SCHEDULE

Regulation 3

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc. (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1965 by substituting a revised form of medical certificate of cause of death for the existing one. The main changes are–

a

to include provision for the doctor

i

to indicate that he may be in a position later to provide additional information to the Registrar General,

ii

to indicate that the procurator fiscal has been informed, and

iii

in the case of a death in hospital, to enter the name of the consultant responsible for the deceased as a patient;

b

to extend the question relating to the death of a married woman during or within 6 weeks of pregnancy to include all women, and to include deaths occurring between 6 weeks and a year of pregnancy; and

c

to exclude the name of the deceased and the time and place of death from the certifying clause.