{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-regulations-1987/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-and-deaths-welsh-language-regulations-1987/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Short certificate of birth",
  "text": "(1) In relation to a short certificate of birth issued by a superintendent registrar or registrar which is compiled from an entry in a birth register relating to a birth which occurred in Wales, form 17 shall be the prescribed form in place of form 21 in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations and regulation 64(a) of those Regulations shall have effect as if it referred not to the latter form but to form 17.\n(2) In relation to a short certificate of birth issued by the Registrar General which–\n(a) is compiled–\n(i) from a certified copy of an entry in a register of births kept in Wales,\n(ii) from an entry in the register of births kept under section 3A of the Act, or\n(iii) in respect of an adopted person;\n(b) is to show that the place of birth was in Wales,\nform 18 shall be the prescribed form in place of form 22 in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations and regulation 64(b) of those Regulations shall have effect as if it referred not to the latter form but to form 18.\n(3) Where a short certificate of birth is compiled from an entry, or a certified copy of an entry, which pursuant to these Regulations contains a Welsh version of the particulars entered, the certificate shall likewise include particulars in Welsh as well as in English.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.1.1988, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 3A was inserted by section 92 of the Children Act 1975 (c. 72)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2089/regulation/8",
    "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."
}