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 Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Shadow Chief Whip (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.

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