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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-births-deaths-and-missing-persons-regulations-1972/regulation-7",
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  "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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Saving for father of illegitimate child",
  "text": "In the case of the birth of an illegitimate child, the name of any person as father of such child shall not be entered in any return or record of particulars of the birth of such child unless the mother of the child and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of the child shall have signed a completed form of return as informants.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "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/7",
    "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."
}