Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st October 1992.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965; and

“the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1965(2).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 2(2) of the principal Regulations, for the definition of “still-born child”, there shall be substituted the following definition:—

• ““still-born child” shall have the same meaning as in section 56(1) of the Act(3) and “still-birth” shall be construed accordingly.”.

4.  For the form set out in Schedule 6 to the principal Regulations, there shall be substituted the form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Revocations

5.  The following Regulations are hereby revoked:—

(a)regulation 3(1) of and Schedule 1 to the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1984(4); and

(b)the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992(5).

Regulation 4

SCHEDULECERTIFICATE OF STILL-BIRTH

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1965 “the principal Regulations”).

The Regulations substitute an amended definition of “still-born child” and “still-birth” and a revised certificate of still-birth in the principal Regulations.

The amendments are consequential upon the change in the definition of still-birth in the Still-Birth (Definition) Act 1992 (c. 29).

As a consequence, these Regulations revoke—

(a)provisions in the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1984 (S.I. 1984/43) but set out the previous form of the certificate of still-birth; and

(b)the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2045) which omitted to change the definition in the principal Regulations. These Regulations therefore replace the 1992 Regulations.