{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-regulations-1987/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-regulations-1987/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Registration and re-registration of live-births occurring in Wales",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where a qualified informant, giving information relating to the registration or re-registration of a birth which occurred in Wales, elects for the particulars required by Part III, IV or V of the principal Regulations to be entered in Welsh as well as in English, the registrar shall enter those particulars accordingly.\n(2) Paragraph (1) of this regulation shall apply only where–\n(a) the informant gives the requisite information either–\n(i) personally, before the expiration of 3 months from the date of the birth of the child, to the relevant registrar; or\n(ii) by declaration under section 6 or 9 of the Act, before a superintendent registrar or registrar in Wales; and\n(b) the informant gives such information in Welsh and the officer to or before whom he gives it can understand and write Welsh.\n(3) Where under paragraph (2) of regulation 14 of the principal Regulations (giving or alteration of name after registration) a superintendent registrar or registrar makes an entry in space 17 of an entry of birth which has been completed in Welsh as well as in English, he shall add the Welsh version of the words prescribed by sub-paragraph (a) or (b) (as the case may be) of that paragraph.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
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      "affecting_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
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      "affecting_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
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    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2089/regulation/4",
    "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."
}