The Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) (Amendment) Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/687
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 4th April 1988.

(2) In these Regulations “the main Regulations ” means the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987 .

Section 2 Insertion of regulation 4A in the main Regulations

After regulation 4 of the main Regulations there shall be inserted the following regulation:—

Re-registration, after declaration of parentage or legitimacy, of birth occurring in Wales

(4A) Where under section 14A of the Act the Registrar General authorises the relevant registrar to re-register a birth that occurred in Wales, then provided that:—

(a) a qualified informant elects for the particulars required by regulation 26A of the principal Regulations to be entered in Welsh as well as English, and

(b) the informant gives the particulars referred to in regulation 26A(a) of the principal Regulations in Welsh personally to the relevant registrar, and

(c) the relevant registrar can understand and write Welsh,

the relevant registrar shall:—

(i) enter the particulars referred to in regulation 26A(a) in Welsh as well as English;

(ii) enter particulars of the informant in spaces 11 to 13 in Welsh as well as English;

(iii) call upon the informant to verify the particulars entered and to sign the entry in space 14;

(iv) enter the words required by regulation 26A(b) of the principal Regulations and regulation 3 of these Regulations (those words being entered in spaces 11 to 14 as required by regulation 26A(b) of the principal Regulations in addition to any particulars entered in those spaces by virtue of paragraphs (ii) and (iii) of this regulation);

(v) draw a line through any unused space;

(vi) enter in space 15 the date on which the entry is made and sign the entry in space 16, adding his official description.

Section 3 Amendment to Schedule 3 to the main Regulations

In Schedule 3 of the main Regulations after the entry relating to regulation 23(b) there shall be inserted the following entries in columns (1), (2) and (3) respectively:—