(1) The Chief Medical Officer shall—
(a) cause to be kept a register of births and still-births for his or her district; (Amended by S.I. 29/2020)
(b) subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), enter in the register the particulars contained in every notice given to him or her under regulation 3.
(2) Where a notice given under regulation 3 and the place of ordinary residence of the mother of the child to whose birth or still-birth the notice relates is stated in the notice to be in a district other than that in which the birth or still-birth occurred, the district medical officer to whom the notice is given shall, without complying with subregulation (1)(b), immediately transmit the notice to the Chief Medical Officer in which the place of ordinary residence of the mother is situated. (Amended by S.I. 29/2020)
(3) The district medical officer shall, upon receipt of a notice transmitted to him or her under subregulation (2), forthwith enter the particulars contained in that notice in the register kept by him or her under subregulation (1)(a).
(Amended by S.I. 29/2020)