Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships
(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a maximum time limit of eight days for the registration of deaths in England.
This question was answered on 19th December 2017
Section 16(3) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 requires deaths to be registered by a qualified informant within five days for England and Wales. There are no current plans to amend this legislation.