The Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992

Made: 19th August 1992

Coming into force: 1st October 1992

The Registrar General for Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 21(2)(a) 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 and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st October 1992.

Interpretation

2

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

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3

For the form set out in Schedule 6 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — CERTIFICATE OF STILL-BIRTH

Signed

C.M. Glennie — Registrar General for Scotland — 17th August 1992

I approve

Fraser of Carmyllie — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 19th August 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1965 by substituting a revised form for the certificate of still-birth prescribed by those Regulations. The change made to the form is consequential on the change in the definition of still-birth in the Still-Birth (Definition) Act 1992 (c. 29).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1965 c. 49.

[^f00002]: 1965/1839; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1984/43.