{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-41.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1968/2049",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968",
  "path": "regulation/41",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Manner of registration",
  "text": "(1) In the case of any still-birth with respect to which there has been delivered to the registrar:—\n(a) a written certificate in form 6 of a medical practitioner or midwife as referred to in section 11(1)(a) of the Act (which section makes special provision as to registration of still-births) or\n(b) a declaration as referred to in section 11(1)(b) thereof, in form 7,\nthe registrar, on receiving from an informant, at any time within 3 months after the date of the still-birth, information of the particulars required by regulation 40, shall (unless he takes action under regulation 43) register the still-birth in the presence of the informant by completing spaces 1 to 13 in form 5.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of regulation 42, the provisions of regulations 17 to 21 shall, with any necessary modifications, apply to completing form 5 as they apply to completing form 1; but an informant shall not be required to verify space 2 on form 5.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1968/2049/regulation/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:16:20.581505+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."
}