Section 33 Short certificate of birth.C1

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

s. 33(1) words substituted by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 10(2)
s. 33(1A) inserted by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 10(3)
s. 33(2) words substituted by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(a)
s. 33(2) words substituted by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 10(4)(b)

C2(1)

Any person shall, F1... on furnishing the prescribed particulars, be entitled to obtain from the Registrar General, a superintendent registrar or a registrar a short certificate of the birth of any person.

C3(2)

Any such certificate shall be in the prescribed form and shall be compiled in the prescribed manner from the records and registers in the custody of the Registrar General, or from the registers in the custody of the superintendent registrar or registrar, as the case may be, and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed:

Provided that any particulars prescribed in addition to name, surname, sex and date of birth shall not include any particulars relating to parentage or adoption contained in any such records or registers.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 33(1) omitted (12.7.2016) by virtue of Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19), s. 94(1), Sch. 15 para. 26; S.I. 2016/603, reg. 3(w)

Modifications

C1: S. 33 excluded by S.I. 1987/2088, reg. 63(1)
C2: S. 33(1) extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1982/1526, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pts. I, II
C3: S. 33(2) extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1982/1526, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I