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Introductory Text
PART I INTRODUCTORY
1.Title and commencement
2.Interpretation
PART II THE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3.Registrar General of Births and Deaths
4.General Register Office and officers
5.Registration districts and registration authorities
6.Registrars and other staff
7.Financial provisions
8.Registrars' offices
9.Delivery up of books, etc., on ceasing to hold office
PART III REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS
10.Registration of births
11.Infant children found exposed
12.Issue of notice for information concerning births
13.Registration after one year from birth
14.Registration of father where parents not married or civil partners
14ZA.Registration of second female parent where parents not civil partners
14A.Registration of father or second female parent by virtue of certain provisions of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
15.Special provisions as to still-births
16.Registration of still-birth after reference to coroner
17.Disclosure of information
18.Re-registration of births
19.Re-registration of births of legitimated persons
19A.Re-registration after declaration of parentage
20.Registration of births of legitimated persons
PART IV REGISTRATION OF DEATHS
21.Registration of deaths
22.Preliminary notice of death
23.Issue of notice for information concerning deaths
24.Registration after one year from death
25.Certificates of cause of death
26.Informant's position following an inquest
27.Informant's duty where coroner issues statement or certificate
28.Entry of cause of death as set out in coroner's statement or certificate
29.Certificate of registration of death
30.Information about burials
31.Re-registration of deaths
PART V GENERAL
32.Registers
33.Reproduction of registers and replacement of lost registers, etc.
34.Searches of indexes and certified copies of entries
34A.Access to information relating to births and deaths
35.Correction of entries in registers
36.Correction or cancellation of entries in registers on motion of certain officers
37.Registration or alteration of child's name
38.Examination of entries in registers
39.Certified copies
40.Short birth certificate
40A.Short death certificate
40B.Notification of births and deaths
41.Entries in registers as evidence
42.Proof of age or death for purposes of certain statutory provisions
43.Offences relating to registers
44.Refusal to give information
45.Forgery, etc., of documents under this Order
46.Time limit for commencing summary proceedings
47.Fees payable for searches, certified copies, etc.
Art.48, with Schedule 2, effects repeals
49.Savings
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
STATUTORY PROVISIONS FOR THE PURPOSES OF WHICH PROOF OF THE AGE OR DEATH OF ANY PERSON MAY BE REQUIRED
Schedule 2—Repeals