{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-23.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/1041",
  "legislation_title": "Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Issue of notice for information concerning deaths",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of Article 24, where, after the expiration of the relevant period from the date of the death of any person, the death of that person has not been registered because of the failure of a qualified informant to give the necessary information concerning it, the registrar for the registration district in which the death occurred may serve a notice in writing upon any qualified informant requiring him—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) to give in the prescribed manner within such time as may be specified in the notice information to the best of the informant's knowledge and belief of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nand the informant shall unless the death is duly registered before the expiration of the time specified in the notice comply with the notice.\n(2) In this Article “the relevant period” means—\n(a) where a notice under Article 22 has been duly given to the registrar, fourteen days;\n(b) in any other case, five days.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 23(1)(a) repealed (16.11.2012) by Civil Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 20), ss. 10(3)(a), 34, Sch. 2; S.R. 2012/406, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 23(1)(b) inserted (16.11.2012) by Civil Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 20), ss. 10(2), 34; S.R. 2012/406, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 23(1)(c) repealed (16.11.2012) by Civil Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 20), ss. 10(3)(b), 34, Sch. 2; S.R. 2012/406, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1041/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:49.962650+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."
}