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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006/section-41",
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  "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/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Re-registration of births",
  "text": "(1) The 1965 Act is amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3).\n(2) In section 20 (re-registration of birth)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) in paragraph (c), after “another”, where secondly occurring, there is inserted “ and subject to subsection (1B) below ”;\n(ii) for the words from “Registrar”, where first occurring, to “birth”, where first occurring, there is substituted “ birth may, where subsection (1A) below applies, be re-registered ”;\n(iii) for the words from “Provided” to “birth”, where secondly occurring, there is substituted—\n“(1A) This subsection applies—\n(a) where the Registrar General authorises the re-registration, and\n(b) in such other cases or classes of case as may be prescribed.\n(1B) A birth may not be re-registered”; and\n(iv) for “this subsection” there is substituted “ subsection (1) above ”; and\n(b) subsection (3) is repealed.\n(3) In section 54 (parliamentary procedure), in subsection (2)—\n(a) the words “prescribing fees for the purposes of this Act” become paragraph (a) of that subsection; and\n(b) after “Act” there is inserted—\n“(b) prescribing cases or classes of case for the purpose of section 20(1A)(b) of this Act,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 41 wholly in force at 1.1.2007; s. 41 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 63(2); s. 41(1) in force for specified purposes and s. 41(2)(a)(3) in force at 1.10.2006 and s. 41 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": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/14/section/41",
    "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."
}