PART VMISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Consequential amendments

21.—(1) The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In the definition of “entry” in regulation 2(1) and in each of regulations 14, 71, 72(1) and 84(1) for the words “, death or marriage” there shall be substituted the words “or death” and in the definition of “entry” for the reference to “, 9 or 23” there shall be substituted a reference to “or 9”.

(3) In regulation 77A(1) for the words “, deaths or marriages” there shall be substituted the words “or deaths”.

(4) In regulation 88—

(a)in paragraph (1)—

(i)for the words “the Act, the” there shall be substituted the words “the Act or the”, and

(ii)the words “or the Marriage Act 1949” and “to marriages or” shall be omitted; and

(b)in paragraph (2) the words from “or under section 76(1)” to the end of the paragraph shall be omitted.

(1)

the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1982/955.