Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 and the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987 following the implemention of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act 2003, which allows a man to be registered as the father of a child conceived after his death using his sperm or an embryo created using his sperm either before or after his death. That Act also enables a man to be registered as the father of a child conceived after his death using an embryo created using donor sperm before his death. These provisions do not however allow the man to be treated in law as the father for any other purpose and the registration will not confer on the child any legal status or rights e.g. inheritance, nationality etc.

These Regulations impose no costs on business.