Legislation – Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

the requirement under section 28(2) of that Act for every superintendent registrar (“S”) to keep with the records of S’s office any registers of live-births or of deaths which are in S’s custody immediately before the coming into force of that repeal, or

(b)

the requirement under section 28(4) of that Act for the Registrar General to keep in the General Register Office—

(i)

any certified copies or information sent or provided under section 27 of that Act (quarterly returns by superintendent registrar to Registrar General), or

(ii)

any registers of still-births that were forwarded to the Registrar General before the coming into force of that repeal.

(2)

Any register of live-births or of deaths which, immediately before the coming into force of this section, is in the custody of a registrar and is unfilled is, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the coming into force of this section, to be delivered to the superintendent registrar (“S”) to be kept by S with the records of S’s office.

(3)

Any register of still-births which, immediately before the coming into force of this section, is in the custody of a registrar and is unfilled is, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the coming into force of this section, to be forwarded to the Registrar General to be kept in the General Register Office in such order and manner as the Registrar General thinks fit.

(4)

The Registrar General may dispose of—

(a)

any certified copies held by the Registrar General of entries in any register of still-births forwarded to the Registrar General under section 28(3) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 or subsection (3) above, or

(b)

any information contained in those entries which is held by the Registrar General in electronic form by virtue of section 27 of that Act.

(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—

(a)

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,

(b)

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,

(c)

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

(d)

the Registrar General may dispose of—

(i)

any certified copies held by the Registrar General of entries in the register, or

(ii)

any information contained in those entries which is held by the Registrar General in electronic form by virtue of section 27 of that Act.

(6)

The period referred to in subsection (5) is the period—

(a)

beginning with 1 July 2009, and

(b)

ending immediately before the day on which section 61 comes into force.

(7)

Expressions used in this section and in the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 have the same meaning in this section as in that Act.