{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-births-deaths-and-marriages-scotland-act-1965/section-27.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": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Free certificate of registration of death.",
  "text": "(1) At the time of registering the death of any person, the district registrar for a registration district shall without charge give to the informant a certificate in the prescribed form that such death has been registered.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(1) substituted (1.10.2006 for specified purposes, 1.1.2007 in so far as not already in force) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 42(8)(a), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, arts. 2, 3, Schs. 1, 2 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 27(2)(3) repealed (13.5.2015) by Certification of Death (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 11), s. 32(3), Sch. 2 para. 5; S.S.I. 2015/115, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/49/section/27",
    "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."
}