The Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) (Amendment) (Transitional Provisions) Order 2024

This Order may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) (Amendment) (Transitional Provisions) Order 2024.

This Order comes into force on 9th September 2024.

This Order extends to England and Wales.

The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Welsh Language) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 are amended as follows.

After regulation 2, insert—

“Transitional provision

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(1)

This regulation applies where, immediately before the date on which these Regulations come into force—

(a)

a death has not been registered under Part 2 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953^f1;

(b)

a registered medical practitioner has signed a certificate, in accordance with regulation 40 (certificate of cause of death) of the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987^f2, in one of the following forms in relation to the death—

(i)

form 14 or form 15;

(ii)

the corresponding form 11 or form 12 prescribed by regulation 2(a) of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987^f3; and

(c)

a coroner is not under a duty to hold an inquest into the death under section 6 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.

(2)

Where this regulation applies, the following provisions of these Regulations do not apply to the death—

(a)

regulation 2(2);

(b)

regulation 2(3)(a), (b) and (c)(ii);

(c)

regulation 2(4);

(d)

regulation 2(6)(a)(i) and (b);

(e)

regulation 2(7)(a), (d) and (e).”.