{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-26C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-26C.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/26C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26C",
  "heading": "Re-registration where person born at sea",
  "text": "Where under section 14A of the Act the Registrar General authorises the re-registration of the birth of a person who was born at sea and whose birth was included in a return sent to the Registrar General, a person deputed for the purpose by the Registrar General shall on receiving the Registrar General’s authority effect re-registration by—\n(a) making the entry in a register to be kept at the General Register Office in form 7, copying the particulars recorded in the spaces of the authority into the corresponding spaces of the form;\n(b) noting in the margin of any previous record of birth in the custody of the Registrar General the words “Re-registered under section 14A of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, on …”, inserting the date of re-registration; and\n(c) sending a copy of the previous record, including a copy of the marginal note, certified under the seal of the General Register Office, to the authority from whom that record was received by the Registrar General.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 5A inserted (4.4.1988) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/638), regs. 1(1), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2088/regulation/26C",
    "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."
}