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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-and-marriages-records-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2020/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1093",
  "legislation_title": "The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-and-marriages-records-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships Records Regulations 2016",
  "text": "(1) The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships Records Regulations 2016 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “expedited service” insert—\n““online view service” means a service provided via the website for the General Register Office which allows a person to—\n(a) search via that website for an entry in the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries, and\n(b) if the search locates the entry, submit a request via that website to view a record of information contained in that entry in electronic format;”;\n(b) omit the definition of “portable document format”.\n(3) In regulation 2 (provision of the information contained in a birth record)—\n(a) in the heading, for “portable document” substitute “electronic”;\n(b) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) The Registrar General may provide a record of information contained in an entry in the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries in the birth register, in electronic format, following—\n(a) a request for the Registrar General to search for the entry and provide the record of information, or\n(b) a request made via the online view service.”;\n(c) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) after “(1)” insert “(a)”;\n(ii) in subparagraph (a), for “public website known as www.gov.uk” substitute “website for the General Register Office”;\n(d) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) A record of information provided by the Registrar General in response to a request made via the online view service must be provided via the website for the General Register Office”.\n(4) In regulation 3 (provision of the information in a death record)—\n(a) in the heading, for “portable document” substitute “electronic”;\n(b) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) The Registrar General may provide a record of information contained in an entry in the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries in the death register, in electronic format, following—\n(a) a request for the Registrar General to search for the entry and provide the record of information, or\n(b) a request made via the online view service.”;\n(c) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) after “(1)” insert “(a)”;\n(ii) in subparagraph (a), for “public website known as www.gov.uk” substitute “website for the General Register Office”;\n(d) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) A record of information provided by the Registrar General in response to a request made via the online view service must be provided via the website for the General Register Office.”.\n(5) In regulation 4 (provision of the information in a marriage record)—\n(a) in the heading, for “portable document” substitute “electronic”;\n(b) for paragraph (1), substitute—\n“(1) The Registrar General may provide a record of information contained in a marriage entry in the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries in the marriage register and conversion register, in electronic format, following—\n(a) a request for the Registrar General to search for the entry and provide the record of information, or\n(b) in the case of an entry in the marriage register, a request made via the online view service.”;\n(c) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) after “(1)” insert “(a)”;\n(ii) in subparagraph (a), for “public website known as www.gov.uk” substitute “website for the General Register Office”;\n(d) after paragraph (2), insert—\n“(2A) A record of information provided by the Registrar General in response to a request made via the online view service must be provided via the website for the General Register Office.”.\n(6) In the heading for regulation 5 (provision of information in birth records to Government departments), for “in electronic format” substitute “to Government departments”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/980, amended by S.I. 2018/1268."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1093/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:42.614362+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."
}