The Register of Presumed Deaths (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2014

Made: 5th September 2014

Coming into force: 1st October 2014

The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1(1)(b), 1(2)(a), 1(3), 2(1)(b) and 2(4) of Schedule 1 to the Presumption of Death Act 2013[^f00001], and with the approval of the Secretary of State makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Register of Presumed Deaths (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st October 2014.

• (2) In these Regulations:

• “the Act” means the Presumption of Death Act 2013;

• “maiden surname” means the surname with which a woman entered into her first marriage or civil partnership and, where a woman entered into a civil partnership and then a marriage (or a marriage and then a civil partnership), it means the surname with which she entered into the first of these legal relationships.

Prescribed information: entries in the Register of Presumed Deaths

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• (1) The information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) and 1(2)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Act, so far as such information is determined by the court[^f00002] in a particular case, is set out in the Schedule.

• (2) If the information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) is provided by the court to the Registrar General in Welsh, it must also be provided in English.

Prescribed information: Variation Orders

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• (1) The information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Act is any change to the information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) of that Schedule.

• (2) If that information is provided by the court to the Registrar General in Welsh, it must also be provided in English.

SCHEDULE — Prescribed information

Signed

Approved by

James Brokenshire — Minister of State — Home Office — 5th September 2014

Made by

Paul Pugh — Registrar General — 5th September 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations))

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations prescribe: the information that must be sent by the High Court to the Registrar General for England and Wales, when that court has made a declaration of presumed death; the information that has to be entered in the Register of Presumed Deaths; and the information that must be provided by the court to the Registrar General when a variation order takes effect. An Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2013 c. 13.

[^f00002]: “The court” in the Act is defined to mean the High Court – see section 20.