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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

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What it requires

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s.024 Certificate of cause of death. Regulated

Provide certificate of cause of death within 7 daysAny Person

77 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 The Registrar General.

s.002 Registrar General’s staff.

s.003 General Register Office.

s.004 Salaries, receipts and expenses.

s.005 Registration districts and local registration authorities

s.006 Alteration of registration districts.

s.007 Senior and district registrars and other staff.

s.008 Registration offices.

s.009 Area repositories.

s.010 Delivery up of books

s.011 General provision as to fees.

s.012 Fees to be accounted for.

s.013 Particulars of births to be registered.

s.014 Duty to give information of particulars of birth.

s.014 Directions about giving information of particulars of birth

s.015 Duty to give information concerning finding of infant children.

s.016 Registrar’s power to require information concerning birth to be given.

s.016 Provision of birth particulars to Registrar General

s.016 Registration of births

s.017 Registration after expiration of three months from date of birth or finding.

s.018 Births of children born out of wedlock.

s.018 Decrees of parentage and non-parentage.

s.018 Births of children where second female parent by virtue of section 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008

s.018 Registration of father or second female parent by virtue of certain provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008

s.019 Free abbreviated certificate of birth.

s.020 Re-registration in certain cases.

s.021 Still-births.

s.021 Meaning of birth registration form

s.022 Particulars of deaths to be registered.

s.023 Duty to give information of particulars of death.

s.023 Directions about giving information of particulars of death

s.024 Duty to refer certain certificates of cause of death for review

s.024 Request for review not to stay registration

s.025 Registrar’s power to require information concerning death to be given.

s.025 Provision of death particulars to Registrar General

s.025 Registration of deaths

s.026 Registration after expiration of three months from date of death or finding of body.

s.027 Free certificate of registration of death.

s.027 Offence of disposal of body without authorisation

s.028 Intimation of certain deaths by registrar to Procurator-Fiscal and vice-versa.

s.028 Registration of divorces and declarators of nullity of marriage.

s.028 Intimation of death to Community Charges Registration Officer.

s.028 Meaning of death registration form

s.032 Provision of registers etc. by Registrar General.

s.033 Duplicate and copy registers.

s.034 Examination and transmission of registers

s.035 Reproduction of registers.

s.036 Replacement of lost registers etc.

s.037 Issuing of extracts of entries in current registers

s.038 Search of indexes kept by Registrar General.

s.039 Notice of registration events to third parties

s.039 Application by third party for notification of death

s.039 Provision of information to district registrars

s.039 Searching of indexes and issuing of extracts by district registrars

s.039 Abbreviated extracts

s.041 Form and authentication of registration information

s.041 Admissibility of registration information as evidence

s.042 Correction of errors in registers.

s.043 Recording of baptismal name or change of name or surname.

s.044 Register of Corrections Etc.

s.045 Correction of entries in parochial registers.

s.046 Parochial registers to be transmitted to Registrar General.

s.047 Search of parochial registers etc., and provision of extracts therefrom.

s.048 Decrees of court altering status.

s.049 Signing by mark by persons unable to write.

s.050 Events occurring in institutions.

s.051 Returns to be made by registrar.

s.052 Sending of documents by post.

s.053 Offences.

s.054 Regulations.

s.054 Form, and manner of attestation, of documents

s.055 Expenses.

s.056 Interpretation.

s.057 Savings etc.

s.058 Consequential amendments and repeals.

s.059 Short title, extent and commence-ment.

s.para.79 General Modification

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s.sch001 Any reference in any other enactment to a registrar in...

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Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965

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