# The Registration of Overseas Births and Deaths Regulations 2014, Regulation 8: Deaths which may be registered


(1) The death of any person who died on or after 1 January 1983 in a country mentioned in Schedule 3 to the 1981 Act or a foreign country and who was a British citizen or a British overseas territories citizen at the time of their death may, when reported in writing by an informant having knowledge of the event to the registration officer, be registered in accordance with these Regulations.
(2) Subject to regulation 9 a registration officer shall not register a death unless satisfied as to the facts of the case by the production of a locally issued certificate of death.
(3) In a country where certificates of death are not issued by local authorities, the registration officer may require that there be produced a medical practitioner’s certificate of death or such other documentary evidence as may be sufficient to satisfy the registration officer as to the occurrence of death and the identity of the deceased person.
(4) Details of the evidence of death produced shall be recorded in the entry by the registration officer.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/511/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-overseas-births-and-deaths-regulations-2014/regulation-8
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