Section 64(5)

Where, at any time during the period mentioned in subsection (6), a copy has been kept otherwise than in hard copy form of any register of births or register of deaths kept for a sub-district under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953— that copy is to be treated, on and after the day on which section 61 of this Act comes into force, as the register kept for the sub-district for the purposes of that Act, on and after that day, the register is to be treated for the purposes of section 25(3) of that Act as having been kept in the form in which the copy was kept, where before that day a person signed any entry in the register, the entry is to continue, on and after that day, to be regarded for the purposes of that Act as having been signed by the person, and the Registrar General may dispose of— any certified copies held by the Registrar General of entries in the register, or any information contained in those entries which is held by the Registrar General in electronic form by virtue of section 27 of that Act.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04