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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-baby-loss-certificate-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-baby-loss-certificate-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nidsr/2026/9780338026361",
  "legislation_title": "The Baby Loss Certificate Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-baby-loss-certificate-regulations-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“baby loss” means the loss of a baby during pregnancy that is not a still-birth within the meaning of section 2(2) of the Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976;\n“Registrar General” means the Registrar General of Births and Deaths in Northern Ireland;\n“second female parent” means a woman who is a parent of a child by virtue of section 42, 43 or, where appropriate, section 46(1) or (2) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/1041 (N.I. 14) amended by Article 3 of the Still-Birth (Definition) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, (S.I. 1992/1310) (N.I. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2008 (c.22)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2026/9780338026361/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:39:53.741421+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."
}