{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1926/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1926/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/16-17/48",
  "legislation_title": "Births and Deaths Registration Act 1926",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1926",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Burial of still-born children.",
  "text": "It shall not be lawful for a person who has control over or who ordinarily buries bodies in any burial ground to permit to be buried or to bury in such burial ground a still-born child before there is delivered to him (either physically or as a copy in an approved electronic form) either—\n(a) a certificate given by the registrar under section 11(2) or (3) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, or\n(b) in a case in relation to which a senior coroner has made enquiries under section 1(7) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (or has purported to conduct an investigation under Part 1 of that Act), an order of the coroner.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 inserted (1.12.2021) by The Births and Deaths Registration (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1231), arts. 1(2), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 substituted (25.7.2013) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(4)(e), Sch. 21 para. 4 (with s. 180); S.I. 2013/1869, art. 2(o)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/16-17/48/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:41:31.362552+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."
}