{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-35.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/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Registration on coroner’s notification where no inquest is held",
  "text": "(1) Where, in relation to a still-birth which has not already been registered, the relevant registrar receives from a coroner notification that he does not intend to hold an inquest, the registrar shall, subject to paragraph (2), take such action as may be required to register the still-birth ... on form 9 in the presence of a qualified informant, entering the particulars required in spaces 1 to 13 in accordance with Regulation 34(2) or, if a declaration is made for the purposes of section 9(1) of the Act, in accordance with regulation 34A(4).\n(2) Where the coroner–\n(a) certifies in his notification that an examination made by his direction has disclosed that the child was still-born or that there was not sufficient evidence to show that the child was born alive; and\n(b) delivers to the registrar a certificate showing the result of the examination,\nthe registrar shall enter in space 2 of form 9 the cause of death precisely as stated in the certificate, followed by the words “Certified by…after post-mortem held by direction of…”, inserting respectively the name, surname and qualification of the registered medical practitioner who made the examination and the name, surname and description of the coroner.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 35(1) substituted (28.5.2012) by The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1203), regs. 1(1), 15(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 35(1) substituted (28.5.2012) by The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1203), regs. 1(1), 15(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 35(1) omitted (20.12.2021) by virtue of The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1436), regs. 1(2), 2(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 35(1) inserted (1.4.1997) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/844), regs. 1(1), 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 35(3) omitted (28.5.2012) by virtue of The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1203), regs. 1(1), 15(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 35 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/35",
    "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."
}