{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20",
  "legislation_title": "Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Registration of death free of charge.",
  "text": "Where the registrar receives personally from any qualified informant ... 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:\n. . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 20 repealed (16.4.2024 for specified purposes, 9.9.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25), s. 182(4)(e), Sch. 21 para. 12, Sch.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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 20 proviso repealed by S.I. 1968/1242, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:51.735695+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."
}