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NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT 1907

NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT 1907 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the early Notification of Births.
[28th August 1907]
Provisions for the earlier notification of births.

NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT 1907 - SECT 1

1. The provisions of this section shall have effect in the area of
[a Health and Social Services Board] ....

(1)In the case of every child born ... it shall be the duty of
the father of the child, if he is actually residing in the house
where the birth takes place at the time of its occurrence, and of
any person in attendance upon the mother at the time of, or within
six hours after, the birth, to give notice in writing of the birth
to the [chief administrative medical officer of the Health and
Social Services Board for the area] in which the child is born, in
manner provided by this section.

(2)Notice under this section shall be given by posting a prepaid
letter ... addressed to the [chief administrative medical officer of
the Health and Social Services Board] at his office ..., giving the
necessary information of the birth within thirty-six hours after the
birth, or by delivering a written notice of the birth at the
office ... of [that] officer within the same time; [and the Health
and Social Services Board shall supply without charge prepaid
addressed envelopes together with forms of notice to any medical
practitioner or midwife residing or practising in its area, who
applies for the same.]

(3)Any person who fails to give notice of a birth in accordance
with this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a
penalty not exceeding [#1]: Provided that a person shall not be
liable to a penalty under this provision if he satisfies the court
that he had reasonable grounds to believe that notice had been duly
given by some other person.

(4)The notification required to be made under this Act shall be in
addition to and not in substitution for the requirements of any Act
relating to the registration of births; and any registrar of births
and deaths, ... shall at all reasonable times have access to
notices of births received by the [chief administrative medical
officer of the Health and Social Services Board] under this Act, or
to any book in which those notices may be recorded, for the
purpose of obtaining information concerning births which may have
occurred in his sub-district.

(5)This section shall apply to any child which has issued forth
from its mother after the expiration of the twenty-eighth week of
pregnancy, whether alive or dead.

Para.(6) rep. by 1972 NI 14 art.109(3) sch.18[

NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT 1907 - SECT 2
Definition of Health and Social Services Board.

2. In this Act "Health and Social Services Board" means a Health
and Social Services Board established under Article 16 of the Health
and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.]

S.3 rep. by 1915 c.64 s.4(2) sch.; SLR (NI) 1954

NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT 1907 - SECT 5
Application to Ireland.

5. In the application of this Act to Ireland, the Local Government
Board for Ireland shall be substituted for the Local Government
Board, and the expression "sub-district" means a registrar's district
under the Acts relating to the registration of births.

NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS ACT 1907 - SECT 6
Short title.

6. This Act may be cited as the Notificaton of Births Act, 1907.

Schedule rep. by 1915 c.64 s.4(2) sch.; SLR (NI) 1954