Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make minor amendments to the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987. The amendments fall into three categories.
The first category of amendments are those consequential on the coming into force of sections 24 and 25 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987. The amendments relate to the registration or re-registration of the births of children whose parents are not married to each other.
The second category of amendments relate to the correction of clerical errors in registers and specifies three further errors a registrar may correct without further authority.
The third category is an amendment to the provision relating to certificates for certain purposes and an amendment to take account of the consolidation of the legislation relating to coroners.