Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1976 No. 1041 — creates 11 criminal offences.

Made

2 July 1976

In force from

Not determined

Extent

N.I.

Subject

Miscellaneous

Explanatory note

No explanatory note was published with this instrument, or none was found in its text.

Offences created by this instrument

• Special provisions as to still-births article 15(11) · Revoked · Strict liability
• Disclosure of information article 17(2) · Revoked · Strict liability
• Information about burials article 30(3) · Revoked · Strict liability
• Any registrar who refuses, or, without reasonable cause, fails to register any birth or death or particulars in… article 43(1) · Revoked · Strict liability
• Any person who registers or causes to be registered any birth in contravention of Article 13 or death in contravention… article 43(2) · Revoked · Strict liability
• Any person who, having the custody of any register, negligently loses or damages it or allows it to be damaged shall… article 43(3) · Revoked · Objective fault
• Refusal to give information article 44(1) · Revoked · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Refusal to give information article 44(2) · Revoked · Strict liability
• Refusal to give information article 44(3) · Revoked · Strict liability
• Forgery, etc., of documents under this Order article 45(1) · Revoked · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Delivery up of books, etc., on ceasing to hold office article 9(2) · Revoked · Requires proof of a state of mind

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

Check the source

• This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
• Other instruments from 1976