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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.032 Certificate and declaration in connection with registration Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registrar must accept Form 10 or Form 11 for birth/death registrationStatutory regulator

87 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Citation and commencement

s.002 Interpretation

s.002 Sending and providing notices, information or other documents

s.002 Declarations and certificates in an approved electronic form

s.003 Preparation of draft particulars

s.004 Absence of particulars

s.005 Signature by mark or in foreign characters

s.006 Registration in more than one place

s.007 Particulars to be registered and form of register

s.008 Declaration by mother, father or other parent for registration of birth

s.009 Entry of particulars on registration

s.010 Completion of registration

s.011 Registration between three and twelve months from date of birth

s.012 Report to the Registrar General

s.013 Declaration and registration under section 9 of the Act

s.014 Alteration or giving of name after registration

s.015 Officers before whom statements may be made

s.016 Declaration by mother, father or other parent for the re-registration of a birth

s.017 Re-registration of birth

s.018 Noting of previous entry

s.019 Attendance and particulars on re-registration

s.020 Re-registration where mother, father or other parent attends

s.021 Making of declaration where parent does not attend

s.022 Re-registration in pursuance of declaration

s.023 Re-registration where particulars not verified by parent

s.024 Noting of previous entry

s.025 Certified copies of re-registered entries

s.026 Re-registration where person born at sea

s.026 Particulars on re-registration

s.026 Noting of previous entry

s.026 Re-registration where person born at sea

s.027 Marking of birth entry of adopted child

s.028 Reproduction of marking in certified copy

s.029 Particulars to be registered

s.030 Noting of previous entry

s.031 Particulars to be registered and form of register

s.033 Reference to coroner

s.033 Report to the Registrar General

s.034 Registration where no reference to coroner

s.034 Declaration and registration of a still-birth under section 9 of the Act

s.035 Registration on coroner’s notification where no inquest is held

s.036 Registration on coroner’s certificate after inquest

s.037 Noting of previous entry after coroner’s certificate after inquest

s.038 Certificates for disposal

s.039 Particulars to be registered

s.040 Certificate of cause of death

s.041 Reference to coroner

s.042 Registration where no report to coroner

s.042 Declaration and registration under section 23A of the Act

s.043 Registration where inquest is not held

s.043 Registration where a coroner’s certificate is provided to the registrar on request by the registrar

s.044 Noting of existing entry on coroner’s notification of cause of death

s.044 Registration after receipt of declaration and coroner’s notification of cause of death

s.045 Registration after inquest , or after an investigation by the coroner is suspended

s.046 Noting of previous entry on registration after inquest

s.047 Registration after twelve months

s.048 Interpretation of Part XI

s.049 Certificates and declaration for disposal

s.050 Notification of disposal

s.051 Enquiry in default of notification of disposal

s.052 Certificate that death is not required to be registered

s.053 Time when entry is complete

s.054 Correction of entry before completion

s.055 Correction of minor clerical errors after completion

s.056 Correction of other minor clerical errors after completion

s.057 Correction of other clerical errors after completion

s.058 Correction of errors of fact or substance

s.058 Correction of errors on notification by medical examiner

s.059 Correction of error on coroner’s certificate

s.060 Correction of clerical errors in entries made before 1st April 1969

s.061 Copy of corrected or annotated entry to be sent to Registrar General

s.062 Certificate of registration of birth

s.063 Application for short certificate of birth

s.064 Form of short certificate of birth

s.065 Compilation of short certificate of birth

s.066 Short certificate of birth in respect of certain children admitted to the Foundling Hospital

s.066 Application for short certificate of death

s.066 Form of short certificate of death

s.066 Compilation of short certificate of death

s.067 Applications for certificate of birth or death for certain purposes

s.068 Certificates of death for certain purposes

s.069 Information under the Population (Statistics) Act 1938

s.070 Draft of particulars to be sent to the Registrar General

s.070 Transmission of draft particulars

s.071 Quarterly returns

s.072 Offences and proceedings

s.073 Revocations and transitional provisions

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987

Does it bind you?

What it requires