{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-and-deaths-registration-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-40.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/40",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Short birth certificate",
  "text": "The Department may make regulations—\n(a) providing as respects any entry in a register of births or adoptions, for the issue by the Registrar General or any registrar of a certificate of such of the items comprising that entry (other than items relating to parentage or adoption) as may be prescribed;\n(b) providing for the form of any such certificate;\n(c) providing for the particulars to be furnished by an applicant for such a certificate;\n(d) providing for the manner in which any such certificate is to be compiled; and\n(e) requiring the payment, by the applicant for the certificate, of the prescribed fee;\nbut such a certificate shall not be issued in respect of any entry which has been marked “adopted”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 40(a) substituted (3.10.2011) by Civil Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 20), ss. 18, 34; S.R. 2011/323, art. 2(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/1041/article/40",
    "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."
}