{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-persons-birth-records-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-persons-birth-records-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1981",
  "legislation_title": "The Adopted Persons (Birth Records) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-persons-birth-records-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application for access to birth records",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 51(1) of the Act (which provides for information to be supplied to an adopted person to enable him to obtain a certified copy of the record of his birth), the adopted person shall apply to the Registrar General as follows:—\n(a) in the case of a person who was adopted before 12th November 1975, in the form set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations; or\n(b) in the case of a person who was adopted after 11th November 1975, in the form set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1981/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:38:39.143710+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}