{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-act-1953/section-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Penalty for improper registration after 12 months from date of birth.",
  "text": "Save as provided in section 7, a registrar shall not register the birth of any child after the expiration of 12 months from the date of birth . . . , from the date of the finding, and any person who registers any birth, or causes any birth to be registered, in contravention of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8 substituted (28.5.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), s. 61(3), Sch. 6 para. 9(a); S.I. 2012/1256, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 8 substituted (28.5.2012) by Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), s. 61(3), Sch. 6 para. 9(b); S.I. 2012/1256, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Sch. 4 Pt. VI"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20/section/8",
    "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."
}