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BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1976 - SECT 16

16.(1) Where a coroner

(a)examines or causes to be examined the body of a child; and

(b) is satisfied that the body is that of a still-born child;

(2) Where a registrar receives from a coroner a certificate under paragraph
(1)

(a)he shall, if the certificate states that an inquest was held on the
still-born child, enter in the register of still-births the particulars
required to be registered concerning the still-birth, in the prescribed form
and manner, and state in the entry that they were received from the coroner;

(b)he shall, if the certificate states that an inquest was not held on the
still-born child, upon receiving from an informant within three months from
the date of the birth or of the finding of the body information concerning the
still-birth, register the still-birth forthwith in the prescribed form and
manner and enter in the register the cause of the still-birth as stated in the
certificate.

© 1976 Crown Copyright

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