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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/presumption-of-death-act-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/13",
  "legislation_title": "Presumption of Death Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/presumption-of-death-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Registrar General that there is a clerical error in the Register of Presumed Deaths, the Registrar General may authorise a person to correct the error.\n(2) Where it appears to the court that there is an error in the Register of Presumed Deaths, the court may direct the Registrar General to secure that the error is corrected.\n(3) The Registrar General may annotate, or cancel the annotation of, any entry in the Register of Presumed Deaths.\n(4) Sub-paragraph (5) applies where it appears to the Registrar General that the death of a missing person to whom an entry in the Register of Presumed Deaths relates—\n(a) has been registered in a register of deaths made under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, or\n(b) has been recorded in a register kept or maintained under the law of a country or territory outside England and Wales corresponding in nature to a register described in paragraph (a).\n(5) The Registrar General must annotate the relevant entry in the Register of Presumed Deaths accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5 in force at 1.10.2014 by S.I. 2014/1810, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words in Sch. 1 para. 7 renumbered as Sch. 1 para. 7(a)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/18",
      "affecting_title": "Data (Use and Access) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/18",
      "affecting_title": "Data (Use and Access) Act 2025"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/13/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:24.742767+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."
}