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Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

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(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Register of Presumed Deaths (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st October 2014.

(2)

In these Regulations:

  • “the Act” means the Presumption of Death Act 2013;

  • “maiden surname” means the surname with which a woman entered into her first marriage or civil partnership and, where a woman entered into a civil partnership and then a marriage (or a marriage and then a civil partnership), it means the surname with which she entered into the first of these legal relationships.