Schedule 3, Part 2, paragraph 26

Section 10 (registration) is amended as follows. In subsection (2), omit the “or” after paragraph (a) and after paragraph (b) insert , or an entry in a register kept under section 1 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, For subsection (3) substitute— “The appropriate Registrar General” means— in relation to a UK birth register entry of which a certified copy is kept by a Registrar General or which is in a register so kept, whichever Registrar General keeps that certified copy or that register; in relation to a UK birth register entry in a register kept under section 1 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, the Registrar General for England and Wales. For the purposes of this section each of the following is a Registrar General— the Registrar General for England and Wales; the Registrar General for Scotland; the Registrar General for Northern Ireland.

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