These regulations amend the Registration of Births, Still-Births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1997.

A revised certificate of still-birth is substituted to enable more detail to be provided about the sequence of events leading to death and contains minor drafting amendments (regulation 3). The stillbirth register page is substituted as a consequence of the changes made to the certificate of stillbirth (regulation 2).

A revised declaration by the mother of a child (regulation 4) and declaration by the father of a child (regulation 5) are substituted to remove the reference to the parents not being married to each other