Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 2387
Registration Of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Etc., (england And Wales)
The Register of Presumed Deaths (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2014
Made
5th September 2014
Coming into force
1st October 2014
The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1(1)(b), 1(2)(a), 1(3), 2(1)(b) and 2(4) of Schedule 1 to the Presumption of Death Act 2013( 1 ), and with the approval of the Secretary of State makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Register of Presumed Deaths (Prescribed Information) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st October 2014.
(2) In these Regulations:
“the Act” means the Presumption of Death Act 2013;
“maiden surname” means the surname with which a woman entered into her first marriage or civil partnership and, where a woman entered into a civil partnership and then a marriage (or a marriage and then a civil partnership), it means the surname with which she entered into the first of these legal relationships.
Prescribed information: entries in the Register of Presumed Deaths
2. —(1) The information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) and 1(2)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Act, so far as such information is determined by the court( 2 ) in a particular case, is set out in the Schedule.
(2) If the information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) is provided by the court to the Registrar General in Welsh, it must also be provided in English.
Prescribed information: Variation Orders
3. —(1) The information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Act is any change to the information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(b) of that Schedule.
(2) If that information is provided by the court to the Registrar General in Welsh, it must also be provided in English.
Approved by
James Brokenshire
Minister of State
Home Office
5th September 2014
Made by
Paul Pugh
Registrar General
5th September 2014
Regulation 2(1)
SCHEDULE Prescribed information
The date of presumed death
The place of presumed death
Name and surname
Sex
Maiden surname
Date of birth
Place of birth
Occupation
Usual or last known address
Cause of presumed death
Name of the issuing court.
Date of court declaration
“The court” in the Act is defined to mean the High Court – see section 20.