The Registration of Births and Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) (Transitional Provisions) Order 2024

Made: at 10.10 a.m. on 5th September 2024

Laid before Parliament: at 3.00 p.m. on 5th September 2024

Coming into force: 9th September 2024

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20(1) and 177 Coroners and Justice Act 2009[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and extent

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) (Transitional Provisions) Order 2024.

• (2) This Order comes into force on 9th September 2024.

• (3) This Order extends to England and Wales.

Amendment of the Registration of Births and Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

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• (1) The Registration of Births and Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 are amended as follows.

• (2) After regulation 2, insert—

(3) (1) This regulation applies where, immediately before the date on which these Regulations come into force— (a) a death has not been registered under Part 2 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953[^f00002]; (b) a registered medical practitioner has signed a certificate in form 14 or in form 15 in accordance with regulation 40 (certificate of cause of death) of the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987[^f00003] in relation to the death; and (c) a coroner is not under a duty to hold an inquest into the death under section 6 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009[^f00004]. (2) Where this regulation applies, the following provisions of these Regulations do not apply to the death— (a) regulation 2(2) to (7); (b) regulation 2(13) to (19); (c) regulation 2(21)(a)(i) and (b).

Signed

Seema Malhotra — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Home Office — At 10.10 a.m. on 5th September 2024

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Explanatory Note

This Order amends the Registration of Births and Deaths (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/885) (“the 2024 Regulations”) to insert transitional provisions. It comes into force on the same day.

The transitional provisions inserted disapply specified provisions of the 2024 Regulations in circumstances where a death has not been registered under Part 2 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (c. 20) prior to the date on which the 2024 Regulations come into force, a registered medical practitioner has signed a certificate in relation to the death in accordance with regulation 40 (certificate of cause of death) of the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/2088) and the Coroner is not under a duty to hold an inquest under section 6 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (c. 25).

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2009 c. 25. Section 177. See section 177(10) for the meaning of “appropriate minister”.

[^f00002]: 1953 c. 20 (Regnal. 1_and_2_Eliz_2).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/2088.

[^f00004]: 2009 c. 25.