{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-registration-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-registration-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/408",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Registration Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-registration-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese 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.\nThey also:\n— prescribe the form of the various applications, certificates, declarations and notices relating to civil registrations;\n— describe how the various registers are to be maintained;\n— provide for remote access to, or the release of, the information which is held in the civil registers;\n— provide for applications to have a relevant event registered in the Record of Northern Ireland Connections.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Forms 1A, 1B inserted (11.3.2022) by The Marriage, Civil Partnership and Civil Registration (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/48), reg. 1, Sch. Pt. 3 para. 1"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/408/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:11.295076+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."
}