{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2088",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Re-registration where mother, father or other parent attends",
  "text": "Where the mother, father or other parent as the case may be, attend at the office of the relevant registrar to re-register a birth, the registrar must —\n(a) ascertain from them the particulars to be registered and enter them in spaces 1 to 13 of form 1 and;\n(b) ask whoever is acting as the informant to verify the particulars and to sign the entry in space 14 of form 1;\n(c) enter in space 15 of form 1 the date on which the entry is made and add the words “On the authority of the Registrar General”; and\n(d) sign the entry in space 16 of form 1 and add his official description.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 substituted (1.9.2009) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2165), regs. 1(1), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2088/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:16:18.930722+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}