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Section 20 Registration of death free of charge.

Where the registrar receives personally from any qualified informant F1... information of the particulars required to be registered concerning that person’s death, then, so soon as he has received any particulars required to be registered concerning the cause of death which are required to be given by any person other than the informant, he shall forthwith register the death and the particulars, if not previously registered, in the prescribed form and manner without any fee or reward from the informant:

F2. . .

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Textual amendments

F1

Words in s. 20 repealed (16.4.2024 for specified purposes, 9.9.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(4)(e), Sch. 21 para. 12, Sch. 23 Pt. 1 (with s. 180); S.I. 2024/516, arts. 2(a), 3(e)

F2

S. 20 proviso repealed by S.I. 1968/1242, Sch. 2