{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Language Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In regulation 5 (registration of still-births occurring in Wales) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—\n“(2) Subject to paragraph (2A), where a qualified informant, giving information relating to the registration of a still-birth which occurred in Wales, elects for the particulars required by Part VIII of the principal Regulations to be entered in Welsh as well as in English, the registrar shall enter those particulars accordingly.\n(2A) Paragraph (2) of this regulation shall apply only where—\n(a) the informant gives the requisite information either—\n(i) personally to the relevant registrar; or\n(ii) by declaration under section 9 of the Act, before a registrar in Wales; and\n(b) the informant gives such information in Welsh and the officer to or before whom he gives it can understand and write Welsh.”.\n(3) In regulation 6 (registration of deaths occuring in Wales) for paragraph (3) there shall be subsituted the following paragraphs—\n“(3) Subject to paragraphs (3A) and (4), where a qualified informant giving information relating to the registration of a death which occurred in Wales, elects for the particulars required by Part X of the principal Regulations to be entered in Welsh as well as in English, the registrar shall enter those particulars accordingly.\n(3A) Paragraph (3) shall apply only where—\n(a) the informant gives the requisite information either—\n(i) personally, to the relevant registrar; or\n(ii) by declaration under section 23A of the Act, before a registrar in Wales; and\n(b) the informant gives the requisite information in Welsh and the officer to or before whom he gives it can understand and write Welsh.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/844/regulation/5",
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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."
}