Deaths

I111Short death certificate

1

After Article 40 of the 1976 Order (short birth certificate) there shall be inserted the following Article—

Short death certificate40A

The Department may make regulations—

a

providing as respects any entry in a register of deaths made after the commencement of section 11 of the Civil Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 2011, for the issue by the Registrar General or any registrar of a certificate of such of the items comprising that entry (other than items relating to the cause of death) as may be prescribed;

b

providing for the form of any such certificate;

c

providing for the particulars to be furnished by an applicant for such a certificate;

d

providing for the manner in which any such certificate is to be compiled; and

e

requiring the payment, by the applicant for the certificate, of the prescribed fee.

2

In Article 34(5) of the 1976 Order (which contains provision that judicial notice shall be taken of any certificate under Article 40 of that Order), after “40” there shall be inserted “ or 40A ”.