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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/497",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.\nENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 15th March 1989\nComing into force 1st April 1989\nThe Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1), 5, 9(5), 10(1), 10A(1), 29(2), 39 and 41 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, by section 20(a) and 21(1) of the Registration Service Act 1953 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, with the approval of the Secretary of State for Health, hereby makes the following Regulations–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20; sections 1(1) and 5 were amended by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Schedule 3, paragraph 13(1); section 5 was also amended by the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1242), Schedule 2; section 9(5) was added by the Children Act 1975, section 93(3); sections 10 and 10A were substituted by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42), sections 24 and 25 respectively; see the definitions of “the Minister” and “prescribed” in section 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1953 c. 37; see the definitions of “the Minister” and “prescribed” in section 21(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699), article 2, which transferred all the functions of the Minister of Health to the Secretary of State; the approval of the Secretary of State is required by virtue of section 39 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 and by virtue of section 20 of the Registration Service Act 1953."
    }
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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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