Welfare Reform Act 2009

20 (1) In the Schedule to the Population (Statistics) Act 1938 (particulars which may be required on registration of a birth), in paragraph 1— E+W

(a) for paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) in all cases—

(i) the age of the mother;

(ii) the number of previous children of the mother, and how many of them were born alive or were still-born;”.

(b) for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) where the birth is of a child whose father and mother were married to each other at the time of the child's birth (or is by reason of any marriage of the child's parents treated by section 1(2) of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 as such a child for the purposes of that Act)—

(i) the date of the marriage, and

(ii) whether the mother had been married, or had formed a civil partnership, before her marriage to the child's father;

(d) where the birth is of a child to whom section 1(3) of that Act applies by reason of any civil partnership between the child's parents—

(i) the date of the formation of the civil partnership, and

(ii) whether the mother had been married, or had formed a civil partnership, before she formed the civil partnership with the child's other parent;

(e) where the birth does not fall within paragraph (c) or (d), whether at any time before the birth the mother had been married or had formed a civil partnership.”

(2) This paragraph does not extend to Scotland.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 6 para. 20 in force at 21.5.2012 by S.I. 2012/1256, art. 2(2)(b)