The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc. (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made: 18th January 1990

Coming into force: 1st April 1990

The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 24, 54(1)(b) and 56 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the approval of the Secretary of State, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc. (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.

Interpretation

2

In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc. (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1965[^f00002].

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3

For the form set out in Schedule 11 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Signed

C.M. Glennie — Registrar General for Scotland — 17th January 1990

Approved by the Secretary of State.

Michael B. Forsyth — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 18th January 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc. (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1965 by substituting a revised form of medical certificate of cause of death for the existing one. The main changes are–

• (a) to include provision for the doctor

• (i) to indicate that he may be in a position later to provide additional information to the Registrar General,

• (ii) to indicate that the procurator fiscal has been informed, and

• (iii) in the case of a death in hospital, to enter the name of the consultant responsible for the deceased as a patient;

• (b) to extend the question relating to the death of a married woman during or within 6 weeks of pregnancy to include all women, and to include deaths occurring between 6 weeks and a year of pregnancy; and

• (c) to exclude the name of the deceased and the time and place of death from the certifying clause.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1965 c. 49; section 56 contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1965/1839, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.