# Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, Paragraph 5

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

(1) Section 29 (correction of errors in registers) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (3), for “the officer having the custody of the register” substitute “the appropriate registration officer”.
(3) In subsection (3A)(b), for “the officer having the custody of the register” substitute “the appropriate registration officer”.
(4) In subsection (3B)(b), for “the officer having the custody of the register” substitute “the appropriate registration officer”.
(5) In subsection (4), for “the officer having the custody of the register” substitute “the appropriate registration officer for the register”.
(6) After subsection (4) insert—
“(5) In this section the “appropriate registration officer”, in relation to a register, means—
(a) in the case of a register of live-births or of deaths in hard copy form, the superintendent registrar having custody of the register;
(b) in the case of a register of live-births or of deaths not in hard copy form—
(i) the registrar of births and deaths for the sub-district for which the register is or has been kept, or
(ii) the superintendent registrar for the district containing that sub-district;
(c) in the case of a register of still-births, the Registrar General.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/schedule/3/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-5
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