{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-83",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-regulations-1968/regulation-83.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/83",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Certificates of death for purposes of Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948",
  "text": "(1) Where a person wishes to make an application for the issue of a certificate of death for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 (in this regulation called “the Act of 1948”) the registrar shall provide that person with a form of application supplied by the Registrar General.\n(2) A superintendent registrar or a registrar shall not issue such a certificate to an applicant unless the applicant certifies in the application that he is the child, grandchild or stepchild, within the meaning of the Act of 1948, of the person to whose death the application relates and that he is entitled to claim under an insurance taken out by him on or after 1st January 1924 on the life of that person.\n(3) Except as mentioned in paragraph (4), more than one certificate of death for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1948 shall not be issued to the same person; and to ensure compliance with this provision every superintendent registrar and registrar shall keep a record in the form provided by the Registrar General of the number of the entry in the register in respect of which each such certificate is issued, the serial number of the certificate and the name and relationship to the deceased person of the person to whom that certificate is issued.\n(4) If a person to whom a death certificate has been issued for the purposes of the Act of 1948 makes and delivers to the superintendent registrar or the registrar having custody of the register in which the death was registered a statutory declaration stating—\n(a) that the certificate has been lost or destroyed; and\n(b) whether any endorsement has been made on the certificate and, if so, by what society or company; and\n(c) that if the original is recovered he will surrender it to the superintendent registrar or the registrar;\nthe superintendent registrar or the registrar shall issue to that person a duplicate of the certificate on a form provided for the purpose by the Registrar General.\n(5) A superintendent registrar or a registrar who issues a duplicate certificate under this regulation in a case where it appears from the statutory declaration that an endorsement had been made on the lost or destroyed certificate by any society or company shall record on the duplicate certificate a requirement that it is to be produced to that society or company for the endorsement to be repeated on the duplicate.",
  "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/83",
    "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."
}