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Thread: Registering a birth in UK
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23-07-2012, 9:43 PM #11MutleyGuest
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23-07-2012, 10:45 PM #12MarkJGuest
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24-07-2012, 8:42 AM #13LittleMissPGuest
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24-07-2012, 2:55 PM #14
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In the early days of civil registration, there were a few prosecutions of registrars for registering non-existent births.
https://www.british-jewry.org.uk/PPark.pdf
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24-07-2012, 4:11 PM #15RobinCGuest
I take it that a fine would be imposed if the birth of a child wasn't registered?
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24-07-2012, 4:24 PM #16Jan1954Guest
Yes. According to a General Register Office communication dated 27th May 2011 at:
https://www.
whatdotheyknow.com/request/what_is_the_maximum_penalty_for
In England &Wales, level 1 of the standard scale of fines applies to this offence. This means that the maximum fine would be £200.
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24-07-2012, 4:35 PM #17RobinCGuest
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24-07-2012, 7:29 PM #18
I'm having to exercise my memory here, as it was 30 years ago, but I am pretty sure I registered my son in hospital - admittedly I was an in-patient for 10 days following the birth. I certainly didn't go to the register office - I think I was sent the certificate through the post
Sue Mackay
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24-07-2012, 8:03 PM #19pennydogGuest
All three of mine were registered in hospital (23 -28 years ago). I was lucky that Friday was the day that the registrar attended and I had each one in the early hours of Friday morning. I was given a short birth cert at the time free of charge, but I do not remember being offered the long version, even at a cost.
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24-07-2012, 9:50 PM #20
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I think you would be daft not to register a birth these days because without a birth certificate the child wouldn’t qualify for any of the usual state benefits. Indeed a London Registrar once told me that they used to get lots of applications for late birth registration (often years after the child was born) right up until 1948 when Family Allowance (as it was then called) was first introduced. The threat of prosecution for non registration didn’t really bother people all that much, and had never led to full compliance. It was almost impossible to police anyway. However the prospect of not qualifying for Family Allowance concentrated minds wonderfully and thereafter there was very little evidence of non registration. Indeed the problem of fraudulent registration of a non-existent child became the more serious risk.
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