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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1533",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-no-2-regulations-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese regulations amend the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 and the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987. They make minor changes to the procedure for re-registration of a birth to add the name of the child’s father or on legitimation of the child and extend the existing provision cor correction of minor clerical errors in re-registered birth entries",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1533/note",
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  },
  "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."
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