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BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1976 - SECT 36



36.(1) Where in the opinion of a registrar a register in his custody contains
an error of fact or substance he shall notify the Registrar General to that
effect.

(2) The Registrar General may require the registrar having custody of the
register to issue a notice to a qualified informant requiring him to correct
the error.

(3) The Registrar General may, or the registrar having custody of the
register, when required by the Registrar General to do so, shall, by notice in
writing require any qualified informant

(a)to attend personally at the registrar's office, the General Register Office
or at any other convenient place specified in the notice, within such time
(not being less than ten days from the issue of the notice) as may be so
specified; and

(b)to produce a statutory document in the prescribed form specifying the error
and the true facts, so far as they are known to him;

(4) Where the Registrar General is satisfied that an entry in a register
contains any error of fact or substance and that a qualified informant is not,
or two credible persons possessing knowledge of the true facts are not,
available in relation to that entry, he may

(a)issue a direction to the registrar having custody of the register,
requiring him to make such a correction in the entry as may be specified in
the direction; or

(b)where the register is in the custody of the Registrar General, cause to be
made a correction in the entry.

(5) Where the Registrar General is satisfied that two or more entries in any
register have been made in respect of the same event, he may issue a direction
to the person having the custody of the register in which the entries have
been made, requiring him to cancel such of the entries as he may specify.



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