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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/49",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make new provision as respects the registration of births, deaths and marriages in Scotland, and as respects the recording of changes of name or surname there, and for purposes connected therewith.\n[5th August 1965]",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act extended by Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 28), ss. 45(8), 67(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: power to extend Act conferred by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 41(4)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1982/1526, art. 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act applied (28.9.2009) by Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4), ss. 54(1), 121(2); S.S.I. 2009/267, arts. 1(2), 2 (with arts. 3-21) (as amended (7.5.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/99, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied (28.9.2009) by Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4), ss. 53(3), 121(2); S.S.I. 2009/267, arts. 1(2), 2 (with arts. 3-21) (as amended (7.5.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/99, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.1.1966, see s. 59(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/49/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:33.835387+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."
}