The requirements of this section with respect to the notification of births and deaths are in addition to, and not in substitution for, the requirements of any Act relating to the registration of births and deaths.
Each registrar of births and deaths must furnish to such relevant body or bodies as may be determined in accordance with regulations the particulars of such births or deaths entered in a register of births or deaths kept for the registrar's sub-district as may be prescribed.
Regulations may provide as to the manner in which and the times at which particulars must be furnished under subsection (2).
In the case of each child born—
must give notice of the birth to such relevant body or bodies as may be determined in accordance with regulations.
Subsection (4) applies to any child which is born after the expiry of the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy whether alive or dead.
Notice under subsection (4) to a relevant body must be given either—
A relevant body to whom notice is required to be given under subsection (4) must, upon application to it, supply without charge to such descriptions of medical practitioners or midwives as may be prescribed prepaid addressed envelopes together with the forms of notice.
Any person who fails to give notice of a birth in accordance with subsection (4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale, unless he satisfies the court that he believed, and had reasonable grounds for believing, that notice had been duly given by some other person.
Proceedings in respect of an offence under subsection (8) must not, without the Attorney-General's written consent, be taken by any person other than a party aggrieved or the relevant body or bodies to whom the failure relates.
A registrar of births and deaths must, for the purpose of obtaining information concerning births which have occurred in his sub-district, have access at all reasonable times to—
For the purposes of this section, the following are relevant bodies—
Information received by a local authority by virtue of this section may be used by it only for the purposes of functions exercisable by it in relation to the health service.
In this section, "local authority" has the same meaning as in section 2B.