1953 c. 20

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953

1953 (1 & 2 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 20

PART I

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS

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S.5.

Registrar's power to require information concerning birth.

4. Where, after the expiration of forty-two days from the date of the birth of any child or from the date when any living new-born child is found exposed, the birth of the child has, owing to the default of the persons required to give information concerning it, not been registered, the registrar may by notice in writing require any qualified informant--

(a)

to attend personally at the registrar's office, or at some other place appointed by the registrar within his sub-district, before such date (being not less than seven days after the receipt of the notice nor more than three months after the date of the birth or finding) as may be specified in the notice; and

(b)

to give information to the best of that person's knowledge and belief of the particulars required to be registered concerning the birth; and

(c)

to sign the register in the presence of the registrar:

Provided that any such requirement shall cease to have effect if, before the date specified in the notice and before the person to whom the notice is given complies with it, the birth is duly registered.

S.3.

S.5.