The Registration of Births and Deaths (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2006

Modification of section 27 of the 1953 Act

4.—(1) Amend section 27 of the 1953 Act (quarterly returns by superintendent registrar to Registrar General) as follows.

(2) The existing provisions are made subsection (1).

(3) In the new subsection (1), for “send to the Registrar General” to “duly delivered to him” substitute—

“either—

(a)

send to the Registrar General all certified copies of entries in registers of live-births, still-births or deaths which he has received during the three months immediately preceding the days so appointed respectively, or

(b)

provide the Registrar General with the information contained in those entries in an electronic form approved by the Registrar General;

and if the necessary copies have not been duly delivered to him, or the necessary information has not been duly provided to him.”.

(4) After the new subsection (1), insert—

“(2) If the Registrar General receives any copies under subsection (1)(a) of this section, he may store the information contained in those copies in the electronic form approved by him for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) of this section.”.