{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-57.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/57",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Correction of other clerical errors after completion",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears or is represented to a superintendent registrar or a registrar that in a completed entry made ..., on the information of a qualified informant, in a register of live-births, still-births or deaths in his custody, there is a clerical error other than one to which Regulation 55, 56 , 58A or 59(2) applies, he shall send a report to the Registrar General and shall include with his report–\n(a) such evidence as the Registrar General may require for the purpose of verifying the facts;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) a copy of the entry.\n(2) On receiving the authority of the Registrar General the superintendent registrar or the registrar concerned shall correct the error .......\n(3) Where any correction is made under paragraph (2) the registrar or the superintendent registrar concerned shall—\n(a) enter a marginal note in the following form—\n“In space [or column] .. .. corrected to .. .. on .. .. by me .. .. [registrar or superintendent registrar] on authority of the Registrar General”;\n(b) complete and sign the note in the places provided; and\n(c) record on the marginal note the informant’s qualification for giving information concerning the correction.\n(4) Where no qualified informant is available to witness the correction, the superintendent registrar or the registrar concerned shall write a marginal note in the following form—\n“In space [or column] …corrected to …..on …. by me ….. registrar [or superintendent registrar] on the authority of the Registrar General”\nand he shall complete and sign the note in the places provided.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 57(1) omitted (13.11.2006) by virtue of The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2827), regs. 1(1), 19(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 57(1) substituted (4.4.1988) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/638), regs. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 57 inserted (9.9.2024) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/885), regs. 1(2), 2(17) (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2024/904, arts. 1(2), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 57(1)(b) 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(18)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 57(2) omitted (13.11.2006) by virtue of The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2827), regs. 1(1), 19(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 57(2) 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(18)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 57(3)(4) substituted (13.11.2006) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2827), regs. 1(1), 19(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 57(3) substituted (20.12.2021) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1436), regs. 1(2), 2(18)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 57 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/57",
    "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."
}