{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/14",
  "legislation_title": "Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Registration of still-births",
  "text": "(1) Section 21 of the 1965 Act (registration of still-births) is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (4).\n(2) In subsection (2)—\n(a) for “registrar” there is substituted “ district registrar for a registration district ”; and\n(b) in paragraph (a)—\n(i) for “deliver” there is substituted “ produce ”; and\n(ii) for “signed”, in both places where it occurs, there is substituted “ attested in the prescribed manner ”.\n(3) In subsection (3)—\n(a) the words from “give” to the end become paragraph (a); and\n(b) after that paragraph there is inserted\n“; or\n(b) deliver such a certificate on that person's behalf to a district registrar for a registration district nominated by that person”.\n(4) In subsection (4)—\n(a) for “registrar” there is substituted “ district registrar for a registration district ”; and\n(b) after “registered” there is inserted “ or, if the person so requests, deliver such a certificate on that person's behalf to a keeper or other person having charge of a place of interment nominated by that person ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 wholly in force at 1.1.2007; s. 40 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 63(2); s. 40 in force for specified purposes at 1.10.2006 and s. 40 in force in so far as not already in force at 1.1.2007 by S.S.I. 2006/469, arts. 2, 3, Schs. 1, 2 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/14/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:08.752556+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."
}