# Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, Section 31: Searches of indexes kept by superintendent registrars.

Extent: E+W

(1) Every superintendent registrar shall cause indexes of the registers of live–births and registers of deaths in his register office to be made and to be kept with the other records of that office, and the Registrar General shall supply to every superintendent registrar suitable forms for the making of such indexes.
(2) Any person shall be entitled at any time when the register office is required to be open for the transaction of public business to search the said indexes, and to have a certified copy of any entry in the said registers issued by the superintendent registrar ...

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/31 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-31
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