Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: Coronavirus
(asked on 2nd June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the rule that a baby’s birth must be registered within 42 days has been relaxed due to the closure of registry offices to register births caused by COVID-19.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 16th June 2020
The requirement for births to be registered within 42-days of the date of birth is not currently being enforced.