PART VGENERAL

Short birth certificate40

The Department may make regulations—

a

providing as respects any entry in a register of births or adoptions, for the issue by the Registrar General or F1any registrar of a certificate of such of the items comprising that entry (other than items relating to parentage or adoption) as may be prescribed;

b

providing for the form of any such certificate;

c

providing for the particulars to be furnished by an applicant for such a certificate;

d

providing for the manner in which any such certificate is to be compiled; and

e

requiring the payment, by the applicant for the certificate, of the prescribed fee;

but such a certificate shall not be issued in respect of any entry which has been marked “adopted”.