# The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987, Regulation 61: Copy of corrected or annotated entry to be sent to Registrar General

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(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–
(a) the registrar, if the register containing the entry is in his custody ...
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; or
(c) the superintendent registrar, where the register containing that entry is in his custody,
together, 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.
(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).
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2088/regulation/61 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-61
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