{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-23.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/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Re-registration where particulars not verified by parent",
  "text": "Where, in a case to which any of the provisos to section 14(1) of the Act applies, the Registrar General authorises the relevant registrar to re-register the birth of a legitimated person notwithstanding that the particulars to be registered have not been verified by either parent, the registrar shall–\n(a) copy the particulars recorded in the spaces of the authority into the corresponding spaces of form 1;\n(b) enter in space 14 the words “On the authority of the Registrar General” without any further entry in that space;\n(c) enter in space 15 the date on which the entry is made and sign the entry in space 16, adding his official description.\n(2) In this regulation, parent means mother, father or other parent.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23 inserted (1.9.2009) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2165), regs. 1(1), 17(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23 inserted (1.9.2009) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2165), regs. 1(1), 17(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Proviso (a) was amended by paragraph 13(3) of Schedule 3 to the Children Act 1975 (c. 72) and proviso (c) by paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 1 to the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2088/regulation/23",
    "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."
}