{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-46.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/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Noting of previous entry on registration after inquest",
  "text": "Where under regulation 45 ... the registrar registers a death which has already been registered on the information of a qualified informant–\n(a) if the registrar has custody of the register containing the previous entry, he shall, without altering that entry, write in its margin the words “Re-registered on coroner’s certificate at entry No…”, inserting the number of the new entry;\n(b) where the previous entry is in a register in the custody of a superintendent registrar, he shall give him a copy of the new entry together with particulars of the previous entry whereupon the superintendent registrar shall, without altering the previous entry, write in its margin the words “Re-registered on coroner’s certificate at entry No…in register No…”, inserting the number of the new entry and of the register.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 46 omitted (9.9.2024) by virtue of The Registration of Births and Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/885), regs. 1(2), 2(13) (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2024/904, arts. 1(2), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 46 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/46",
    "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."
}