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Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957
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3 General provisions as to service departments records.U.K.
(1)All such registers and copies of entries in registers or records as have been duly transmitted to the Registrar General for England and Wales, the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland or the Registrar General for Northern Ireland in pursuance of this Act, or of section two of the M1Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Army) Act 1879 or of section thirty-seven of the M2Births and Deaths Registration Act 1874, shall be known as “the Service Departments Registers”.
(2)The enactments relating to the registration of births and deaths and marriages in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (which contain provisions authorising the admission in evidence of, and of extracts from, certified copies of registers and duplicate registers) shall have effect as if the Service Departments Registers were certified copies or duplicate registers transmitted to the Registrar General in accordance with those enactments.
(3)An error of fact or substance in any register or other record kept in pursuance of this Act or of section two of the M3Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Army) Act 1879 or of section thirty-seven of the M4Births and Deaths Registration Act 1874, may be corrected by an entry in the margin (without any alteration of the original entry) by such officer as may be specified in an Order in Council under this Act upon production to him of a statutory declaration setting forth the nature of the error and the true facts of the case made by two credible persons having knowledge of the truth of the case, and Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide for the correction of clerical errors in any such register or other record.
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