{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-2A.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/2A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Sending and providing notices, information or other documents",
  "text": "Where any notice, information, declaration, certificate, return or other document is required to be given, sent, delivered, produced, supplied, transmitted or otherwise provided for any purpose of these Regulations, the requirement may be met by—\n(a) sending the document by post, or\n(b) providing the document, or a copy of it, in an approved electronic form.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 2A, 2B inserted (20.12.2021) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1436), regs. 1(2), 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2088/regulation/2A",
    "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."
}