{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-39.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/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Regulations and approval of electronic forms etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar General may, with the approval of the Minister, by statutory instrument make regulations—\n(a) prescribing anything which by this Act is required to be prescribed;\n(b) providing that any provision of this Act specified in the regulations, being a provision relating to the registration or entry of births, shall cease to apply in relation to still–births or, in the case of a provision expressed by this Act not to apply in relation to still–births, shall apply in relation to still–births with such modifications, if any, as may be prescribed:\nProvided that paragraph (b) of this section shall not apply in relation to section nine or eleven of this Act.\n(2) The Registrar General may approve forms of electronic communication or electronic storage (including an electronic signature) for the purposes of a provision of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 39 renumbered as s. 39(1) (1.12.2021) by The Births and Deaths Registration (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1231), arts. 1(2), 3(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 39(2) inserted (1.12.2021) by The Births and Deaths Registration (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1231), arts. 1(2), 3(10)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 39 heading inserted (1.12.2021) by The Births and Deaths Registration (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1231), arts. 1(2), 3(10)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 39: functions of the Secretary of State transferred (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/273, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 39: transfer of functions (3.4.2008) by The Transfer of Functions (Registration) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/678), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 6(b) (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/24",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/39",
    "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."
}