# Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, Paragraph 2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) Section 3A (registration of births of abandoned children) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (5), for the words from “direct” to the end substitute “enter in the margin of the relevant register of births a reference to the re-registration of the birth or, if the relevant register of births is in hard copy form, shall direct the officer having custody of that register to do so.”
(3) After that subsection insert—
“(6) In subsection (5) “the relevant register of births”, in relation to the re-registration of the birth of a child, means the register of births in which the entry relating to the child was previously made.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/schedule/3/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-2
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