Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths Regulations 1982 by inserting a definition of the word “register”, by amending the definition of the words “registration officer”, by making provision for the registration at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of births and deaths in countries in which the Secretary of State may consider it impracticable to register births and deaths and by making provision for the recording in the register of Christian or forenames given in baptism or otherwise.