# The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987, Regulation 26C: Re-registration where person born at sea


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—
(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;
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2088/regulation/26C (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-26C
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