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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2275",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1991",
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  "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 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulations 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 amend respectively regulations 9, 10, 13, 17 and Schedule 2 of the principal regulations because of the coming into force on 14th October 1991 of paragraph 6 of Schedule 12 to the Children Act 1989. The amendments relate to registration or re-registration of the births of children whose parents are not married to each other.\nRegulation 5 corrects two mistakes in regulation 14 of the principal regulations.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2275/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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