Regulation 2 Amendment of the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987
The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
In regulation 17 (re-registration of birth) in paragraph (3) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(a)call upon the parent to make and sign a statement in form 2 in accordance with the authority of the Registrar General;”.
In regulation 20 (re-registration where parent attends)—
paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be omitted; and
in paragraph (3)—
for the words “The registrar shall then in the presence of the parent —” there shall be substituted the words “Where the parent attends personally at the office of the relevant registrar for re-registration, the registrar shall —”;
for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(a)ascertain from the parent the particulars to be registered concerning the birth and enter them in spaces 1 to 13 of form 1 in the presence of the parent and in accordance with the authority of the Registrar General;”; and
in sub-paragraph (b) the words from “enter in space 12” to “as the case may be, and” shall be omitted.
In regulation 21 (making of declaration where parent does not attend) in paragraph (1)—
the words “with the written consent of the Registrar General” shall be omitted; and
at the end of the paragraph there shall be inserted the words “, provided that if the parent is not in England and Wales, he has obtained the written consent of the Registrar General”.
In regulation 55 (correction of minor clerical errors after completion)—
in paragraph (2) after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—
“(cc)omission of the words required to be added in space 15 of a birth entry by regulation 17(2)(c), 17(4)(c), 20(3)(c), or 22(d);”; and
in paragraph (4) after the words “regulations 20, 22, 23 and 26Af2” there shall be inserted the words “and is not one to which sub-paragraph (2)(cc) applies,”.
In Schedule 2—
for form 2 there shall be substituted form 2 in Schedule 1 to these Regulations; and
forms 5 and 6 shall be omittedf3.