{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-regulations-1987/regulation-71.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/71",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Quarterly returns",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 26(1) of the Act (quarterly returns to be made by registrars to superintendent registrars)–\n(a) the forms of a true copy of all the entries of live-births, still-births and deaths made in the registers during a period shall be forms 1, 9 and 13 respectively and any such copy shall be certified by the registrar completing a form in form 23, signing and dating the form in the space provided;\n(b) the form of certificate , unless section 26(1)(b)(ii) of the Act applies, that no birth, still-birth or death has been registered in a sub-district during that period shall be form 24.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 71(b) inserted (13.11.2006) by The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2827), regs. 1(1), 25"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 71 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/71",
    "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."
}