Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008

Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957 (c. 58)

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11(1)Section 3A of the Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957 (alternative procedure for certain corrections) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1) for the words from “the father” to the end substitute

(a)the father of the person to whose birth or death the entry relates, or

(b)a parent of that person (having been so registered on the basis of being such a parent by virtue of 42, 43 or 46(1) or (2) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008).

(3)In subsection (3), after “not the father” insert “or, as the case may be, that the person shown as a parent was not such a parent by virtue of 42, 43 or 46(1) or (2) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008”.