Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997.

Amendment of the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 19872.

(1)

The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 19874 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 17 (re-registration of birth) in paragraph (3) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(a)

call upon the parent to make and sign a statement in form 2 in accordance with the authority of the Registrar General;”.

(3)

In regulation 20 (re-registration where parent attends)—

(a)

paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be omitted; and

(b)

in paragraph (3)—

(i)

for the words “The registrar shall then in the presence of the parent —” there shall be substituted the words “Where the parent attends personally at the office of the relevant registrar for re-registration, the registrar shall —”;

(ii)

for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(a)

ascertain from the parent the particulars to be registered concerning the birth and enter them in spaces 1 to 13 of form 1 in the presence of the parent and in accordance with the authority of the Registrar General;”; and

(iii)

in sub-paragraph (b) the words from “enter in space 12” to “as the case may be, and” shall be omitted.

(4)

In regulation 21 (making of declaration where parent does not attend) in paragraph (1)—

(a)

the words “with the written consent of the Registrar General” shall be omitted; and

(b)

at the end of the paragraph there shall be inserted the words “, provided that if the parent is not in England and Wales, he has obtained the written consent of the Registrar General”.

(5)

In regulation 55 (correction of minor clerical errors after completion)—

(a)

in paragraph (2) after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(cc)

omission of the words required to be added in space 15 of a birth entry by regulation 17(2)(c), 17(4)(c), 20(3)(c), or 22(d);”; and

(b)

in paragraph (4) after the words “regulations 20, 22, 23 and 26A5” there shall be inserted the words “and is not one to which sub-paragraph (2)(cc) applies,”.

(6)

In Schedule 2—

(a)

for form 2 there shall be substituted form 2 in Schedule 1 to these Regulations; and

(b)

forms 5 and 6 shall be omitted6.

Amendment of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 19873.

In the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 19877 in Schedule 2—

(a)

for form 2 there shall be substituted form 2 in Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and

(b)

forms 5 and 6 shall be omitted8.

Given under my hand on

Dr. D. Holt
Registrar General

I approve,

Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Helen Liddell
Economic Secretary to the Treasury