Where the registrar receives personally from any qualified informant, at any time before the expiration of three months from the date of the birth of any child or from the date when any [F1still–born child] is found exposed, information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth of the child, then, subject as may be prescribed in the case of an alleged still–birth where no certificate such as is mentioned in subsection (1) of section eleven of this Act is delivered, he shall forthwith register the birth and the particulars, if not previously registered, in the prescribed form and manner without any fee or reward from the informant:
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Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Sch. 3 para 13(1)
F2S. 5 proviso repealed by S.I. 1968/1242, Sch. 2