40. 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”.
F1Words in art. 40(a) substituted (3.10.2011) by Civil Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 20), ss. 18, 34; S.R. 2011/323, art. 2(f)