The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968

Provision where date or place of birth or death is unknown

3.  Where a new-born living or still-born child is found exposed or a dead body is found—

(a)if the date of the birth of the child or of the death of the deceased person is unknown, references in these regulations to the doing of anything within a specified period after the birth or death shall be construed as references to the doing thereof within the same period after the child or the dead body was found;

(b)if the place of birth of the child or the place of death of the deceased person is unknown, references in these regulations to the place where a birth or death occurred shall be construed as references to the place where the child or the dead body was found.