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Statutory Instruments
1992 No. 2185 (S.219)
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.
The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992
Coming into force
1st October 1992
The Registrar General for Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 21(1) and 54(1)(b) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965() 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 commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st October 1992.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965; and
“the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1965().
Amendment of the principal Regulations
3. In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations, for the definition of “still-born child”, there shall be substituted the following definition:—
Brian Valentine Philp
Deputy Registrar General for Scotland
New Register House,
Edinburgh
9th September 1992
I approve
Hector Monro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
10th September 1992
Explanatory Note
These Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1965 (“the principal Regulations”). The Regulations substitute an amended definition of “still-born child” and “still-birth” in the principal Regulations. The amendments are consequential upon the change in the definition of still-birth in the Still-Birth (Definition) Act 1992 (c. 29).
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