This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I.1992/2045 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

1992 No. 2186 (S.220)

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.

The Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1992

Made

Coming into force

The Registrar General for Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 21(1) and (2)(a) and 54(1)(b) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 19651 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the approval of the Secretary of State, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

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.

Interpretation2

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 19652.

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 Act3 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.

Revocations5

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 19844; and

b

the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 19925.

Brian Valentine PhilpDeputy Registrar General for ScotlandNew Register House,Edinburgh

I approve

Hector MonroParliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish OfficeSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh

SCHEDULECERTIFICATE OF STILL-BIRTH

Regulation 4

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(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.