{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-47.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/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Certificate for disposal",
  "text": "(1) The form of a certificate of a registrar under section 11(2) of the Act (which relates to preliminaries to disposal of bodies) that he has registered a still-birth shall be form 8.\n(2) A certificate of a registrar under section 11(2) of the Act that he has received notice of a still-birth shall be given on a form provided by the Registrar General but a registrar shall not give such a certificate except for the purpose of burial in a burial ground in England or Wales, and then only—\n(a) where the case is one which is not required to be reported to the coroner, or\n(b) where the case has been reported to the coroner and the registrar has been informed by the coroner that he has completed any investigations which he intends to make and has not issued any order or certificate for the purpose of the disposal of the body.",
  "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/47",
    "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."
}