{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/schedule-6/paragraph-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009/schedule-6/paragraph-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/24",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-reform-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 4 of the Perjury Act 1911 (false statements, etc, as to births or deaths) after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), information which a person is required to provide to a registrar of births or deaths for the purposes of subsection (1) of section 2B of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (duties of mother not married or a civil partner when acting alone) is to be taken to be information concerning a birth.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 para. 19 substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 19(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/24/schedule/6/paragraph/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:45.980880+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."
}