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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1994/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1948",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "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 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 and unless the context otherwise requires any reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in the principal Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2088; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/638, S.I. 1989/497, S.I. 1991/2275 and S.I. 1992/2753."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1948/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:28:52.363390+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}