DEREGULATION Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Deregulation (Still-Birth and Death Registration) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997. Registration of still-births 2 1 Part I of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (registration of births) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this article. 2 In section 9 (giving of information to a person other than the registrar) in subsection (1) the words “, not being a still-birth,” are hereby repealed. 3 In section 11 (special provision as to registration of still-birth) after subsection (1A) there shall be inserted the following subsection— 1B Where information of the particulars required to be registered concerning a still-birth is given by means of a declaration in writing in accordance with section 9(1) of this Act— a subsection (1) of this section shall apply to the person by whom the declaration is made as if the references to the registrar were to the officer in whose presence the declaration is made; and b that officer shall send the certificate delivered, or the declaration made, under that subsection to the registrar. . Registration of deaths 3 In Part II of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 after section 23 there shall be inserted the following section— Giving of information concerning a death to a person other than the registrar 23A 1 Subject to subsection (2) of this section, any person required by or under this Act to give information to the registrar of the particulars required to be registered concerning a death may give that information by making and signing in the presence of and delivering to such officer as may be prescribed a declaration in writing. 2 A declaration shall not be made under this section unless the officer in whose presence the declaration is to be made has in his possession— a if no post-mortem examination of the deceased person’s body is made by virtue of section 19 of the Coroners Act 1988 , a copy of the certificate delivered to the registrar under subsection (1) of section 22 of this Act; or b if a post-mortem examination of the deceased person’s body is so made, a copy of the certificate delivered to the registrar under subsection (3) of section 23 of this Act; and the registrar shall, if so requested by the officer in whose presence the declaration is to be made, supply to that officer a copy of the certificate mentioned in paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, paragraph (b) of this subsection. 3 The officer in whose presence a declaration is made under this section shall send the declaration to the registrar who shall in the prescribed manner enter the death in the register. 4 An entry made under the last foregoing subsection shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been signed by the person who signed the declaration and a person making a declaration under this section shall be deemed to have given information concerning the death to the registrar and to have complied with any requirement of the registrar made under this Act to attend and give that information. 5 Where the person by whom a declaration under this section is made is a relative of the deceased person, he shall be deemed, for the purposes of determining his qualification to give the information given by making the declaration, to be in the sub-district where the death occurred. 6 A person who, upon making a declaration under this section, delivers to the officer in whose presence the declaration is made the notice to be delivered to the registrar under subsection (2) of section 22 of this Act shall be deemed to have delivered that notice to the registrar. . Kenneth Clarke Chancellor of the Exchequer 4th September 1996