The Registration of Births, Still-Births and Deaths (Prescription of Errors) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Made: 20th May 1991

Coming into force: 1st July 1991

The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 42(2) and 54(1)(b) 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, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Still-Births and Deaths (Prescription of Errors) (Scotland) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st July 1991.

• (2) In these Regulations–

• “the Act” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965;

• “error” includes an error of omission;

• “heading” means the unnumbered part or space at the beginning of the form applicable to a register of births, still-births or deaths as set out in Schedules 1, 2 and 10 respectively of the Prescription of Forms Regulations;

• “Prescription of Forms Regulations” means the Registration of Births, Still-Births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1965[^f00002]; and

• “space No.” means, in relation to the number specified, the part or space of that number in the form applicable to a register of births, still-births or deaths as set out in Schedules 1, 2 and 10 respectively of the Prescription of Forms Regulations.

Prescribed errors for the purposes of section 42 of the Act

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Any error in the particulars of an entry in a register of births, still-births, or deaths which–

• (a) falls within a part of the form applicable to the register in question specified in column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations; and

• (b) is of a description specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule,

is hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 42(2) of the Act as an error which, subject to the proviso thereto, may be corrected thereunder by the district registrar.

SCHEDULE

Register of Births

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Register of still-births

2

Register of deaths

3

Signed

C.M. Glennie — Registrar General — 17th May 1991

Approved by the Secretary of State

Michael B. Forsyth — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 20th May 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the errors which a district registrar may, in addition to clerical errors, correct in an entry in the register of births, still-births or deaths provided that–

• (a) the error is noted before the entry is signed, or

• (b) if it is noted after the entry is signed, it is corrected within seven days from the date of signing, in the presence of the informant.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1965 c. 49.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1965/1839; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1971/1158.