Regulation 19 Attendance and particulars on re-registrationI1

England and Wales

Where under section 14(1) of the Act^f1 the Registrar General authorises the re-registration of the birth of a legitimated person–

(a)

except where Regulation 21 or 23 applies, and subject to section 14(2) of the Act^f2 (personal attendance as required by the Registrar General), F1a mother, father or other parent of the legitimated person shall attend personally at the office of the relevant registrar for re-registration of the birth within such time as the Registrar General may direct;

(b)

Regulation 7(2) shall apply as to the particulars to be recorded in respect of the F2mother, father or other parent except that–

F3(i)

in spaces 6 and 8b of form 1 (occupations) the occupations of the F4father and mother, or the other parent and mother respectively need not be recorded as at both the date of birth and the date of the entry,

(ii)

in space 7 of form 1, the surname to be recorded in respect of the mother of the child shall be her surname immediately F5after F6... her marriage to, or civil partnership with, the F7father or other parent, and

F8(iii)

in space 9(b) of form 1 the surname (if any) to be entered shall be that in which the mother contracted her marriage or civil partnership to the father or other parent F9... of the child prior to re-registration.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 19(a) substituted (1.9.2009) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2165), regs. 1(1), 13(1)
F2: Words in reg. 19(b) substituted (1.9.2009) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2165), regs. 1(1), 13(2)
F3: Reg. 19(b)(i) substituted (1.4.1995) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1948), regs. 1(1), 4
F4: Words in reg. 19(b)(i) substituted (1.9.2009) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2165), regs. 1(1), 13(3)
F5: Words in reg. 19(b)(ii) substituted (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/107), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 11(3)(a)
F6: Words in reg. 19(b)(ii) omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 18(4)(a)
F7: Words in reg. 19(b)(ii) inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 18(4)(b)
F8: Words in reg. 19(b)(iii) substituted (1.9.2009) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2165), regs. 1(1), 13(5)
F9: Word in reg. 19(b)(iii) omitted (13.3.2014) by virtue of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/107), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 11(3)(b)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 19 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: Section 14(1) was amended by section 1(2) of the Legitimation (Re-registration of Birth) Act 1957 (c. 39); by paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 1 to the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18); and by paragraph 13(3) of Schedule 3 to the Children Act 1975 (c. 72).
f2: Section 14(2) was amended by section 1(2) of the Legitimation (Re-registration of Birth) Act 1957 (c. 39).