# THE CIVIL AVIATION (BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MISSING PERSONS) REGULATIONS, 1948., Note: Explanatory note


The Regulations provide for the keeping of records of births, deaths, deaths by accident and of persons missing and believed to have died in consequence of an accident occurring in any part of the world in, or during a journey in any aircraft registered in Great Britain or Northern Ireland. Provision is also made for the preservation of such records by the appropriate Registrar-General in a book to be known as the Air Register Book of Births and Deaths.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1948/1411/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-aviation-births-deaths-and-missing-persons-regulations-1948/note
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