Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953

1953 (1 & 2 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 20

PART I

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS

7.--(1) Where, after the expiration of twelve months 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 not been registered, the birth shall not be registered except with the written authority of the Registrar General and in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, and the fact that the authority of the Registrar General has been obtained shall be entered in the register.

(2) On the registration of a birth under this section, the informant shall pay a fee of seven shillings and sixpence to the superintendent registrar and, except where the delay was caused by the failure of the registrar to make a requirement under section four or six of this Act or otherwise by the registrar's default, a like fee to the registrar.

(3) This section shall not apply in the case of a still-birth.