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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-amendment-regulations-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/511",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) (Amendment) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC. ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 14th March 1989\nComing into force 1st April 1989\nThe Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5, 9(5), 10(1), 10A(1), 39 and 41 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, sections 20(a) and 21(1) of the Registration Service Act 1953, as such powers are extended by section 2(2) of the Welsh Language Act 1967 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, with the approval of the Secretary of State for Wales, hereby makes the following Regulations –",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20; section 5 was amended by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Schedule 3, paragraph 13(1) and further amended by the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1242), Schedule 2; section 9(5) was added by the Children Act 1975(c. 72), section 93(3); sections 10 and 10A were substituted by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42), sections 24 and 25 respectively;see the definitions of “the Minister” and “prescribed” in section 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1953 c. 37;see the definitions of “the Minister” and “prescribed” in section 21(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1967 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699), article 2, which transferred all the functions of the Minister of Health to the Secretary of State; the approval of the Secretary of State is required by virtue of section 39 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 and by virtue of section 20 of the Registration Service Act 1953."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/511/introduction",
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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."
}