{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-78.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/78",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Quarterly certified copies",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 26(1) of the Act (which requires registrars to make quarterly returns to superintendent registrars)—\n(a) the forms of true copy of all the entries of births, still-births and deaths made in the registers during a period shall be forms 1, 5 and 9respectively, and such a copy shall be certified in form 24; and\n(b) the form of certificate that no birth, still-birth or death has been registered in a sub-district during that period shall be form 25.\n(2) For the purposes of section 57(2) of the Marriage Act) (which requires registrars to make quarterly returns to superintendent registrars), the form of certification by a registrar—\n(a) of a true copy of all entries of marriages made in the marriage register book during a period, shall be form 26, and\n(b) that no marriage has been registered in that book during that period, shall be form 27",
  "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/78",
    "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."
}