1953 c. 20

 

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Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953


1953 (1 & 2 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 20


PART I


REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS


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Information concerning finding of new-born child to be given to registrar within forty-two days.

3. Where any living new-born child is found exposed, it shall be the duty of the person finding the child, and of any person in whose charge the child may be placed, to give to the best of his knowledge and belief to the registrar, before the expiration of forty-two days from the date on which the child was found, such information of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth of the child as the informant possesses, and in the presence of the registrar to sign the register:


Provided that the giving of information and the signing of the register by any one of the said persons shall act as a discharge of any duty under this section of any other of them.


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