Explanatory note

These Regulations prescribe the particulars required for the registration of a birth, still-birth or death under the Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976.

They also:

• — prescribe the form of the various applications, certificates, declarations and notices relating to civil registrations;

• — describe how the various registers are to be maintained;

• — provide for remote access to, or the release of, the information which is held in the civil registers;

• — provide for applications to have a relevant event registered in the Record of Northern Ireland Connections.