{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-5.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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Registration of births free of charge.",
  "text": "Where the registrar receives personally from any qualified informant, at any time before the expiration of 12 months from the date of the birth of any child or from the date when any still–born child is found exposed, information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth of the child, then, subject as may be prescribed in the case of an alleged still–birth where no certificate such as is mentioned in subsection (1) of section eleven of this Act is delivered, he shall forthwith register the birth and the particulars, if not previously registered, in the prescribed form and manner without any fee or reward from the informant:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 substituted (28.5.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), s. 61(3), Sch. 6 para. 6; S.I. 2012/1256, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Sch. 3 para 13(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 5 proviso repealed by S.I. 1968/1242, Sch. 2"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/5",
    "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."
}