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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-regulations-1987/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2089",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987",
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  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Registration of deaths occurring in Wales",
  "text": "(1) Forms 11 to 15 may be completed in English only or in both English and Welsh.\n(2) Instead of forms 11 to 13, the corresponding forms (that is to say forms 14 to 16) in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations may be used where the place of death is in Wales but the certificate of cause of death is issued in England.\n(3) Where a death is registered upon the attendance of a qualified informant and–\n(a) the informant elects for the particulars relating to the death to be entered in Welsh as well as in English; and\n(b) the informant gives the requisite information in Welsh and the officer to whom he gives it can understand and write Welsh,\nthe registrar shall, subject to paragraph (4), enter the particulars in both English and Welsh.\n(4) When completing space 8 of the entry (other than in a case in which paragraph (5) applies)–\n(a) if the death is registered on production of a certificate of cause of death or of a notification from the coroner that he does not intend to hold an inquest the registrar shall enter the cause of death in accordance with regulation 42(4), 43(2) or (3) or 47(5) of the principal Regulations and precisely as stated on the certificate or notification or (as the case may be) as stated by the informant except that any particulars recorded in Welsh shall, if the informant so requests, be excluded from the entry if the death is to be registered in English only;\n(b) where the particulars in space 8 are entered in Welsh as well as in English the registrar shall also enter the Welsh version of any words prescribed by regulation 42(4) or 43(2).\n(5) Where a death is registered on production of a coroner’s certificate after inquest–\n(a) the registrar shall enter the particulars precisely as stated in the certificate in accordance with regulation 45(a) of the principal Regulations; and\n(b) if the certificate is completed by the coroner in Welsh as well as in English, the registrar shall also enter the Welsh version of the words prescribed by sub-paragraph (b), and of the particulars prescribed by sub-paragraphs (d) and (e), of regulation 45.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2089/regulation/6",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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