The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006

These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 13^th November 2006.

In regulation 9(5)(b) (entry of particulars on registration within three months from date of birth) omit “below the particulars”.

In regulation 9(10) for “the registrar shall, in the presence of the informant, make the necessary correction as provided in regulation 54” substitute “the registrar, in the presence of the informant, shall, where the entry is being completed in manuscript, make the correction in accordance with regulation 54”.

In regulation 11(1)(a) (registration between three and twelve months from date of birth) for “using” substitute “on”.

In regulation 11(1)(b) for “show or read the declaration to the informant and correct any error or omission, requiring the informant to initial any amendment and then to sign the declaration” substitute “show or read the declaration to the informant and correct any error or omission, requiring the informant to initial any amendment if the declaration is prepared in manuscript, and then to sign the declaration”.

In regulation 11(1)(d) for “deliver” substitute “make available”.

In regulation 13(2)(b) (declaration and registration under section 9 of the Act) for “show or read the particulars entered on the form to the informant and correct any error or omission, requiring the informant to initial any amendment and then to sign the declaration” substitute “show or read the declaration to the informant and correct any error or omission, requiring the informant to initial any amendment if the declaration is prepared in manuscript, and then to sign the declaration”.

In regulation 13(5)(c)(iii) omit “below the date of registration”.

In regulation 27(1)(a) (marking of birth entry of adopted child) omit “or, as the case may be, the words “proposed foreign adoption”,”.

In regulation 27(2) for “50(7) and 55(3) of, and paragraphs 1(3), 2, 3(c), 4(2)(b), (3) and (5), 5 and 6(b) of Schedule 1, to the Adoption Act 1976” substitute “77(6) of, and paragraphs 1(2), 2, 3(2)(a), 4(5)(b), (6)(b) and (9), 5 and 6(2)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002”.

In regulation 42(1) (registration within twelve months from date of death where no report to coroner) for “1 to 8” substitute “1 to 7 and 9”.

In regulation 42(4) for “8” substitute “9”.

In regulation 42(5) for “1 to 8” substitute “1 to 7 and 9”.

In regulation 42(6) after “54” insert “when the entry is being prepared in manuscript”.

In regulation 42(7)(a) for “9” substitute “8”.

In regulation 42A(2)(b) (declaration and registration under section 23A of the Act) after “omission,” insert “where the declaration is being prepared in manuscript”.

In regulation 42A(4)(b) for “8” substitute “9” and in regulation 42A(4)(c) for “9” substitute “8”.

In regulation 43(1) (registration where inquest is not held) for “1 to 8, in accordance with regulation 42(2) to (7) or, if a declaration is made for the purposes of section 23A of the Act, in accordance with regulation 42A(4) but subject, in relation to space 8 of form 13 (cause of death), to paragraphs (2) and (3) below” substitute “1 to 7 and 9, in accordance with regulation 42(2) to (7) or, if a declaration is made for the purposes of section 23A of the Act, in accordance with regulation 42A(4) but subject, in relation to space 9 of form 13 (cause of death), to paragraphs (2) and (3) below”.

In regulation 43(2) for “8” substitute “9”.

In regulation 43(3) for “8” substitute “9” in both places where it occurs.

In regulation 45(a) (registration after inquest) for “ 8” substitute “ 9”.

In regulation 45(c) for “9” substitute “8”.

In regulation 54(1) (correction of entry before completion) after “Where under these Regulations a registrar is required to correct an error in an entry” insert “, which he is preparing in manuscript”.

In regulation 54 omit paragraph 1(d).

In regulation 54(2) omit “and the registrar shall number the error and make an entry in the margin as provided in paragraph (1)(d)”.

In regulation 55(2)(c) for “by regulation 10(1)(b)(ii),(iii) or (iv), 13(4)(b), 17(2)(b)(i) or 34A(4)(c)(ii) or (iii)” substitute “under these Regulations”.

In regulation 55(2)(cc) for “by regulation 17(2)(c), 17(4)(c), 20(3)(c), or 22(d)” substitute “under these Regulations”.

In regulations 55(2) (e) (i) and (ii) for “8” substitute “9”.

Omit regulation 55(4).

In paragraph 3 for “Subject to paragraph (4), this” substitute “This”.

Omit regulation 56(4) and (5).

In regulation 57(1) (correction of other clerical errors after completion) omit “on or after 1st April 1969”.

In regulation 57(2) omit “in the manner provided in Regulation 54(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e) whichever is appropriate”.

In regulation 59(1)(a) (correction of error on coroner’s certificate) omit “in respect of any entry made on or after 1st April 1969”.

In regulation 59(3) omit paragraph (a).

regulation 61(1) (copy of corrected or annotated entry to be sent to Registrar General) omit from “(and paragraph (b) does not apply)” to “has been certified”.

In Schedule 2 (prescribed forms) for form 13 substitute form 13 in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Where for any district the Registrar General has not approved the use of an electronic form of communication under sections 13, 26 and 27 of the Act, the form 13 in Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations before the amendment made by paragraph 1 shall be used instead of that in the Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Amend the Welsh Language Regulations as follows.

In regulation 6 for “8” substitute “9”.

In Schedule 2, for form 10, substitute form 10 in Schedule 2 to these Regulation.

In Schedule 3, for the entries in columns (1), (2) and (3) relating to regulations 55(3), 56(2), 57(3), 57(4), 58(2)(b), 59(2) and 59(3) substitute the equivalent entries in the table in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.