{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships-records-regulations-2016/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships-records-regulations-2016/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provision of the information contained in a birth record in electronic format",
  "text": "(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(2) A request for the Registrar General to undertake a search and provide information under paragraph (1)(a) must be made via the website for the General Register Office.\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(3) The Registrar General may charge a fee for each record provided under paragraph (1) ... and the fee charged is payable to the Registrar General.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1) substituted (9.11.2020) by The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1093), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(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(3)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) substituted (28.5.2024) by The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/598), regs. 1(2), 7(3) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 2(2A) inserted (9.11.2020) by The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1093), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(3) omitted (16.2.2019) by virtue of The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Amendment) and Multilingual Standard Forms Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1268), regs. 1(2), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 heading substituted (9.11.2020) by The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1093), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 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/2",
    "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."
}