Registration (Births, Still-Births and Deaths) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Amendment of regulation 11 (particulars to be registered)

3.  For regulation 11, there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“Particulars to be registered

11.— (1) The particulars to be registered concerning a birth shall be the particulars required to be entered in form 1.

(2) The surname to be entered shall be that by which at the date of the registration of the birth it is intended that the child shall be known.

(3) If more than one living child is born at a confinement the time of birth shall be entered after the date of birth.

(4) If the birth is that of a living infant child found exposed and the date of birth is unknown then, subject to Article 11(3) of the 1976 Order, the approximate date of birth shall be entered.

(5) If the birth is that of a living infant child found exposed and the place of birth is unknown, then details of the place where, and the date on which, the child was found shall be entered.

(6) If the father has acquired a surname different from that borne by him at the date of the birth, the name and surname as at the date of birth shall be entered, followed by the surname subsequently acquired.

(7) If the father is deceased, the word “deceased” shall be entered following his surname.

(8) If the parents of the child were not married to each other at the time of the birth, details of the father’s occupation shall not be entered unless his name has been entered as the father in accordance with Article 14(3) of the 1976 Order.

(9) If the mother has acquired a surname different from that borne by her at the date of the birth, there shall be entered the name and surname as at the date of the birth, followed by the surname subsequently acquired.”