Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 No. 1041 (NI. 14)

PART III N.I. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS

Registration of still-birth after reference to coroner N.I.

16.—(1) Where a coroner—

(a) examines or causes to be examined the body of a child; and

(b) is satisfied that the body is that of a still-born child;

he shall, within five days from the examination referred to in sub-paragraph ( a), send to the appropriate registrar a completed certificate in the prescribed form concerning the still-birth.

(2) Where a registrar receives from a coroner a certificate under paragraph (1)—

(a) he shall, if the certificate states that an inquest was held on the still-born child, enter in the register of still-births the particulars required to be registered concerning the still-birth, in the prescribed form and manner, and state in the entry that they were received from the coroner;

(b) he shall, if the certificate states that an inquest was not held on the still-born child, upon receiving from an informant within three months from the date of the birth or of the finding of the body information concerning the still-birth, register the still-birth forthwith in the prescribed form and manner and enter in the register the cause of the still-birth as stated in the certificate.