The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 3048

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC., ENGLAND AND WALES

The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Made

27th November 2003

Coming into force

1st December 2003

The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1), 9(2) and (5), 10A(1), 39 and 41 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953(1) as extended by section 26(3) of the Welsh Language Act 1993(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer(3), hereby makes the following Regulations—

(1)

1953 c. 20. See definitions of “the Ministers” and “prescribed” in section 41; section 1 was amended by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72) Schedule 3, paragraph 13(1); section 9 was amended by the Children Act 1975 section 93(3), by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42) section 33(1), Schedule 2 paragraph 15, and Schedule 3 paragraph 1, by the Deregulation (Still-Birth and Death Registration) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/2395) and by section 2(1) and paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act 2003 (c. 24).

(2)

1993 c. 38.

(3)

The approval of “the Minister” is required by section 39 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953. The function of approving regulations was transferred to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by article 3(1) and paragraph 8(b) of Schedule 1 to the Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/273).