{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-61.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/61",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Copy of corrected or annotated entry to be sent to Registrar General",
  "text": "(1) Where a superintendent registrar or a registrar makes any correction or annotation to a completed entry in a register of live-births, still-births or deaths, whether by marginal note or otherwise, he shall, subject to paragraph (2), within seven days make and send to the Registrar General a copy of the entry as corrected or annotated (or both), including a copy of any marginal note, certified by–\n(a) the registrar, if the register containing the entry is in his custody ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; or\n(c) the superintendent registrar, where the register containing that entry is in his custody,\ntogether, in any case where a birth is re-registered under section 10A of the Act, with a copy of the new entry, certified by the registrar who made that entry.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to a correction or annotation made by a registrar under Regulations 55 and 56 only if the correction or annotation is made after the registrar has certified a true copy of the original entry pursuant to section 26(1)(a) of the Act (quarterly returns).\n(3) Where a registrar has re-registered a birth under either section 10A , 14(1) or 14A of the Act and the previous entry is in a register in the custody of a superintendent registrar the registrar shall within seven days of the re-registration provide the superintendent registrar with a certified copy of the new entry.\n(4) Where the information in a completed entry in a register of live-births, still-births or deaths exists in an electronic form approved by the Registrar General under the Act, then the information in a correction or annotation made under paragraph (1) must be incorporated into the information in that electronic form after the correction or annotation has been made.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61(1) omitted (13.11.2006) by virtue of The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2827), regs. 1(1), 23(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61(3) substituted (4.4.1988) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/638), regs. 1(1), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 61(4) inserted (13.11.2006) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2827), regs. 1(1), 23(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 61 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 10A was inserted by section 93(2) of the Children Act 1975 (c. 72)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 14(1) was amended by paragraph 13(3) of Schedule 3 to the Children Act 1975 (c. 72) and by paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 1 to the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2088/regulation/61",
    "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."
}