16 Registrar's power to require information concerning birth to be given
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (1965 c 49) | Legislation

16  Registrar's power to require information concerning birth to be given

(1)     Where after the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of birth of any child information of the [prescribed particulars] concerning the birth of that child has not been given to the [district registrar for a registration district] in accordance with section 14 of this Act, the [district] registrar for the registration district in which the child was born may serve a notice in the prescribed form on any person who is a qualified informant in relation to the birth requiring him [before such date (being not less than 8 days and not more than 15 days after the date of service of the notice) as may be specified in the notice]—

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