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Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Bill [H.L.]
This is the Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Bill [H.L.], as introduced in the House of Lords on 17 February 1999. | |||||||||||||||||
Explanatory Notes to the Bill, prepared by the Office for National Statistics with the consent of Lord Elis-Thomas, the Peer in charge of the Bill, are published separately as HL Bill 22—EN. | |||||||||||||||||
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Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Bill [H.L.] | |||||||||||||||||
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B I L L TO Make further provision about the registration of births and deaths where particulars are given in Welsh as well as English and to make new provision about certificates of particulars of entries in registers of births and deaths. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- | |||||||||||||||||
Entries in English and Welsh. | 1. - (1) In the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, before section 25 insert- | ||||||||||||||||
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(2) In that Act, after section 32 insert- | |||||||||||||||||
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Certificates of prescribed particulars of births and deaths. | 2. For section 33 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (short certificates of birth) substitute- | ||||||||||||||||
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Supplementary. | 3. - (1) The Schedule (which contains amendments of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 consequential on sections 1 and 2) has effect. | ||||||||||||||||
(2) Sections 1 and 2 and the Schedule shall come into force on such day as the Chancellor of the Exchequer may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes. | |||||||||||||||||
(3) This Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland. | |||||||||||||||||
(4) This Act may be cited as the Births and Deaths Registration (Amendment) Act 1999. | |||||||||||||||||
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CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS | |||||||||||||||||
1. The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 has effect subject to the following amendments. | |||||||||||||||||
2. In section 10(1) (registration of father where parents not married), for "the registrar shall not enter in the register the name of any person" substitute "no person shall be registered". | |||||||||||||||||
3. - (1) Section 10A (re-registration where parents not married) is amended as follows. | |||||||||||||||||
(2) In subsection (1) (cases where registrar shall re-register), for "registrar shall re-register the birth" substitute "birth shall be re-registered". | |||||||||||||||||
(3) After subsection (2) insert- | |||||||||||||||||
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4. In section 13 (registration of name of child or of alteration of name), after subsection (1) insert- | |||||||||||||||||
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5. In section 14 (re-registration of births of legitimated persons), after subsection (4) insert- | |||||||||||||||||
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6. In section 14A (re-registration after declaration of parentage), after subsection (2) insert- | |||||||||||||||||
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7. - (1) Section 30 (indexes kept by Registrar General) is amended as follows. | |||||||||||||||||
(2) In subsection (1A) (index of register kept under section 3A), for "register kept by him under section 3A" substitute "registers kept by him under sections 3A and 24A". | |||||||||||||||||
(3) In subsection (2) (entitlement to search indexes and obtain copy of certified copy on payment), after "said certified copies" insert "or registers". | |||||||||||||||||
(4) In subsection (3) (disapplication of section in relation to certified copies of entries in registers of still-births)- | |||||||||||||||||
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8. - (1) Section 34 (entry in register as evidence of birth or death) is amended as follows. | |||||||||||||||||
(2) In subsection (2) (requirement that entry must have been signed to have evidential value), after "certified copy of a register," insert "or a certificate as to particulars contained in an entry of a birth or death". | |||||||||||||||||
(3) In subsection (6) (copies provided by General Register Office to be stamped or sealed)- | |||||||||||||||||
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