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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/844",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "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 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987; and\n“the Welsh Language Regulations” means the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2088, amended by S.I. 1988/638, S.I. 1989/497, S.I. 1991/2275, S.I. 1992/2753 and S.I. 1994/1948."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2089, amended by S.I. 1988/687, S.I. 1989/511, S.I. 1992/1504 and S.I. 1995/818."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/844/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:20:29.619705+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."
}