s 8 Amendments of section nineteen of principal Act
Regulations may be made under section nineteen of the principal Act— (a) for any purpose for which it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient to make such regulations in consequence of the provisions of this Act : (b) for enabling the births and deaths of British subjects born or dying in any country in which His Majesty has for the time being no diplomatic or consular representatives to be registered by persons serving in the diplomatic, consular or other foreign service of any Power which, by arrangement with His Majesty, has undertaken to represent His interests in that country or by a person authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State: (c) for securing that any declaration made, registration effected, or permission, consent, or direction given, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, in accordance with any provision of any law in force in any Dominion, may, for the purposes of this Act and the principal Act have the like effect as a declaration, registration, permission, consent, or direction, made, effected, or given, in accordance with any corresponding provision of those Acts respectively or of the regulations made thereunder.