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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-33",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20",
  "legislation_title": "Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953",
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  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Short certificate of birth.",
  "text": "(1) Any person shall, ... 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.\n(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:\nProvided 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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 33 excluded by S.I. 1987/2088, reg. 63(1)"
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 33(1) extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1982/1526, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pts. I, II"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 33(2) extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1982/1526, art. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/33",
    "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."
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