{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-44.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/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Registration of still-birth where no inquest is held",
  "text": "(1) Where, before the expiration of 3 months from the date of still-birth which has not already been registered, a registrar receives from a coroner a notification that he does not intend to hold an inquest thereon, the registrar shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), take such steps as may be required to register the still-birth in accordance with regulations 41 and 42.\n(2) Where the coroner certifies in his notification that an examination made by his direction has disclosed that the child was still-born or that there was not sufficient evidence to show that the child was born alive, and delivers to the registrar a certificate showing the result of that examination, the registrar shall enter in space 2 the cause of death precisely as stated therein, followed by the words “Certified by …” and the name and qualification of the medical practitioner who made the examination, and the words “after post-mortem held by direction …” and the name and description of the coroner.",
  "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/44",
    "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."
}