{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/37",
  "legislation_title": "Registration Service Act 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-service-act-1953",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Annual abstract.",
  "text": "The Statistics Board shall send to the Minister for the Cabinet Office annually, in such form as the Minister for the Cabinet Office may from time to time require, a general abstract of the number of live-births, still-births, deaths , marriages and civil partnerships registered in the year last preceding and the Minister for the Cabinet Office shall within one month after receipt thereof or of the meeting of Parliament lay that abstract before each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 substituted (1.4.2008) by Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18), s. 74(1), Sch. 1 para. 9(a); S.I. 2008/839, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 substituted (1.4.2008) by Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18), s. 74(1), Sch. 1 para. 9(b); S.I. 2008/839, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships and Consequential, etc. Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3129), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 19: functions of the Secretary of State transferred (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/273, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 19 transfer of functions (1.4.2008) by Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18), ss. 25(2)(b), 74(1); S.I. 2008/839, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 19 amended by Population (Statistics) Act 1960 (c. 32), s. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/37/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:38.785066+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."
}