{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-31",
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  "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/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Re-registration of deaths",
  "text": "(1) Where the Registrar General is of the opinion that it is desirable that any death entered in a register should be re-registered on the ground that there is or has been an error in the entry of the death, he may in writing authorise the re-registration of the death.\n(2) Any registration under paragraph (1) shall be effected in the prescribed manner.\n(3) This Article shall have effect in relation to entries in registers maintained under any statutory provision repealed by the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 1967 c.25 or this Order as well as to entries in registers maintained under this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1041/article/31",
    "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."
}