{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-births-deaths-and-missing-persons-regulations-1972/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-births-deaths-and-missing-persons-regulations-1972/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1513",
  "legislation_title": "The Hovercraft (Births, Deaths and Missing Persons) Regulations 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-births-deaths-and-missing-persons-regulations-1972",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Rules for ascertaining appropriate Registrar-General",
  "text": "For the purpose of these Regulations, the appropriate Registrar-General shall be ascertained as follows:—\n(a) where it appears to the Secretary of State that an entry in the record of births relates to the birth of a child the father of whom, or, if the child is illegitimate, the mother of whom, was at the time of the birth usually resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, a certified copy of the entry shall be sent to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland, or the Registrar-General for Northern Ireland, as the case may require;\n(b) where it appears to the Secretary of State that an entry in the record of deaths or missing persons relates to a person who, at the time of his death, or (in the case of a missing person) at the time when he was reported missing, was usually resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, a certified copy of the entry shall be sent to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland, or the Registrar-General for Northern Ireland, as the case may require;\n(c) in every other case, a certified copy of an entry in the record of births, deaths, or missing persons, shall be sent to the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1892",
      "affecting_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Consequential Amendments and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1513/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:25:55.681816+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."
}