{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-46.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/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Annotation of previous entry",
  "text": "If, in any case to which regulation 45 applies, the registrar ascertains that an entry in respect of the child has previously been made in any register of births, still-births or deaths he shall, after registering the still-birth in accordance with the said regulation—\n(a) if the previous entry is in a still-birth register in his custody, write in the margin of the previous entry “Re-registered on coroner's certificate at entry No. …” and the number of the new entry, and add his initials;\n(b) if the previous entry is in a birth or death register in his custody, write in the margin of the previous entry “This entry relates to a still-birth and is registered at entry No. … in the still-birth register” and the number of the new entry, and add his initials.",
  "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/46",
    "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."
}