{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-1976/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-1976/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/31",
  "legislation_title": "Legitimacy Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-1976",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Re-registration of birth of legitimated person.",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of the parents of a legitimated person or, in cases where re-registration can be effected on information furnished by one parent and one of the parents is dead, of the surviving parent to furnish to the Registrar General information with a view to obtaining the re-registration of the birth of that person within 3 months after the date of the marriage or of the formation of the civil partnership by virtue of which he was legitimated.\n(2) The failure of the parents or either of them to furnish information as required by subjection (1) above in respect of any legitimated person shall not affect the legitimation of that person.\n(3) This section does not apply in relation to a person who was legitimated otherwise than by virtue of the subsequent marriage or civil partnership of his parents.\n(4) Any parent who fails to give information as required by this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £2.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(1) inserted (6.4.2009 for specified purposes and 1.9.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), s. 68(2), Sch. 6 para. 18(a); S.I. 2009/479, art. 6(1)(e)(2) (with art. 7, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(3) inserted (6.4.2009 for specified purposes and 1.9.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), s. 68(2), Sch. 6 para. 18(b); S.I. 2009/479, art. 6(1)(e)(2) (with art. 7, Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/31/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:30:12.646739+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."
}