The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987

Copy of corrected or annotated entry to be sent to Registrar General E+W

61.—(1) Where a superintendent registrar or a registrar makes any correction or annotation to a completed entry in a register of live-births, still-births or deaths, whether by marginal note or otherwise, he shall, subject to paragraph (2), within seven days make and send to the Registrar General a copy of the entry as corrected or annotated (or both), including a copy of any marginal note, certified by–

(a) the registrar, if the register containing the entry is in his custody F1 ...

F1 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; or

(c) the superintendent registrar, where the register containing that entry is in his custody,

together, in any case where a birth is re-registered under section 10A of the Act(1), with a copy of the new entry, certified by the registrar who made that entry.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to a correction or annotation made by a registrar under Regulations 55 and 56 only if the correction or annotation is made after the registrar has certified a true copy of the original entry pursuant to section 26(1)(a) of the Act (quarterly returns).

(3) Where a registrar has re-registered a birth under either section 10A [F2 , 14(1) or 14A] of the Act(2) and the previous entry is in a register in the custody of a superintendent registrar the registrar shall within seven days of the re-registration provide the superintendent registrar with a certified copy of the new entry.

[F3 (4) Where the information in a completed entry in a register of live-births, still-births or deaths exists in an electronic form approved by the Registrar General under the Act, then the information in a correction or annotation made under paragraph (1) must be incorporated into the information in that electronic form after the correction or annotation has been made.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 61(1) omitted (13.11.2006) by virtue of The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2827), regs. 1(1), 23(1)

F2 Words in reg. 61(3) substituted (4.4.1988) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/638), regs. 1(1), 6

F3 Reg. 61(4) inserted (13.11.2006) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2827), regs. 1(1), 23(2)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 61 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1

(1)

Section 10A was inserted by section 93(2) of the Children Act 1975 (c. 72).

(2)

Section 14(1) was amended by paragraph 13(3) of Schedule 3 to the Children Act 1975 (c. 72) and by paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 1 to the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18).