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8.—(1) The Merchant Shipping (Returns of Births and Deaths) Regulations 1979(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of regulation 11 (rules for ascertaining appropriate Registrar-General), after “father” insert “or second female parent”.
(3) The existing paragraph of regulation 11 shall be re-numbered (1) and there shall be inserted after that paragraph a new paragraph (2)—
“(2) In paragraph (1), “second female parent” means the woman who is a parent of the child by virtue of—
(a)section 42 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008(2) (which relates to treatment provided to a woman who is at the time of treatment a party to a civil partnership or, in certain circumstances a void civil partnership); or
(b)section 43 of that Act (which relates to treatment provided to a woman who agrees that second woman to be parent) where the woman—
(i)is the civil partner of the child’s mother at the time of the child’s birth, or
(ii)was the civil partner of the child’s mother at any time during the period beginning with the time mentioned in section 43(b) of that Act and ending with the child’s birth.”.
(4) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 (particulars required to be contained in returns etc)—
(a)after “Father” insert “or woman who is a parent of a child by virtue of section 42 or 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008”; and
(b)for the words “but, if the child is illegitimate” to the end substitute—
“but, if the child is illegitimate, no particulars of the father or woman who is a parent of the child by virtue of section 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 shall be given except at the joint request of the mother and the person acknowledging himself as the father or herself as the parent, given to the informant in writing and signed by both the mother and that person.”.
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