# The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987, Regulation 19: Attendance and particulars on re-registration

Extent: E+W

Where under section 14(1) of the Act 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 (personal attendance as required by the Registrar General), a 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 mother, father or other parent except that–
(i) in spaces 6 and 8b of form 1 (occupations) the occupations of the father 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 after ... her marriage to, or civil partnership with, the father or other parent, and
(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 ... of the child prior to re-registration.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2088/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-19
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