{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships-records-regulations-2016/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships-records-regulations-2016/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/980",
  "legislation_title": "The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships Records Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships-records-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships Records Regulations 2016 and come into force on 7th November 2016.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n...\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...\n...\n...\n...",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (28.5.2024) by virtue of The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/598), regs. 1(2), 7(2) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (9.11.2020) by The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1093), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (9.11.2020) by virtue of The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1093), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 7.11.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/980/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:29.212160+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."
}