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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-amendment-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/687",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987 (the main Regulations).\nRegulation 2 inserts regulation 4A in the main Regulations to provide a procedure for the entering in Welsh as well as in English of particulars of a birth in Wales which is re-registered following a declaration of parentage or legitimacy under section 56 of the Family Law Act 1986 (c. 55).\nRegulation 3 makes consequential amendments to Schedule 3 of the main Regulations (Welsh version of required form of words).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/687/note",
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  "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."
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