{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-22.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/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Re-registration in pursuance of declaration",
  "text": "On receiving the Registrar General’s authority to re-register a birth together with his consent as to verification and the declaration made for the purposes of Regulation 21, the relevant registrar shall–\n(a) copy the particulars recorded in the spaces of the declaration into the corresponding spaces of form 1;\n(b) enter in space 12 of form 1 the qualification of the informant as “father” or “mother” or “other parent”, as the case may be;\n(c) enter in space 14 of form 1 the name of the declarant in the form in which he signed the declaration and add the words “by declaration dated…”, inserting the date on which the declaration was made and signed;\n(d) complete the entry as provided in regulation 20(3)(c) and (d).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 22(b) inserted (1.9.2009) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2165), regs. 1(1), 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 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/22",
    "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."
}