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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-2003/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3048",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC., ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 27th November 2003\nComing into force 1st December 2003\nThe Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1), 9(2) and (5), 10A(1), 39 and 41 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 as extended by section 26(3) of the Welsh Language Act 1993 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hereby makes the following Regulations—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20. See definitions of “the Ministers” and “prescribed” in section 41; section 1 was amended by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72) Schedule 3, paragraph 13(1); section 9 was amended by the Children Act 1975 section 93(3), by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42) section 33(1), Schedule 2 paragraph 15, and Schedule 3 paragraph 1, by the Deregulation (Still-Birth and Death Registration) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/2395) and by section 2(1) and paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act 2003 (c. 24)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The approval of “the Minister” is required by section 39 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953. The function of approving regulations was transferred to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by article 3(1) and paragraph 8(b) of Schedule 1 to the Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/273)."
    }
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  "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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