{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-regulations-1987/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-regulations-1987/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2089",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n(a) “the Act” means the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953;\n(b) “the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 and any expression used in these Regulations which is also used in the principal Regulations has the same meaning as in those Regulations;\n(c) any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number;\n(d) any reference to a numbered form is to the form bearing that number in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.\n(3) Where a still-born child is found exposed or a dead body is found, any reference in these Regulations to the place where the still-birth or death occurred is, if the place is unknown, to be construed as a reference to the place where the still-born child or the deceased was found.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2088."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2089/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:16:18.287150+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."
}