# The Register of Presumed Deaths (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2014, Regulation 1: Citation, commencement and interpretation


(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2387/regulation/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-presumed-deaths-prescribed-information-regulations-2014/regulation-1
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