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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/638",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
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  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 4th April 1988.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2088."
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  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/638/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:29.326812+00:00"
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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."
}