AI-assisted research summary: This law lets any person get a shortened-form birth certificate from the Superintendent Registrar or a Registrar if they pay sixpence and provide the required particulars.
Jersey Law 12/1950 BIRTH CERTIFICATE (SHORTENED FORM) (JERSEY) LAW, 1950. ____________ A LAW to provide for an additional type of birth certificate, sanctioned by Order of His Majesty in Council of the 26th day of JUNE, 1950. ( Registered on the 15 th day of July , 1950). ____________ STATES OF JERSEY. ____________ The 11th day of April, 1950. ____________ T HE STATES , subject to the sanction of His Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law : - ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS In this Law – “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Law ; “Superintendent Registrar” and “Registrar” mean respectively the Superintendent Registrar, and a Registrar of births, marriages and deaths, appointed in pursuance of the “ Loi (1842) sur l’Etat Civil”. 1 ARTICLE 2 SHORTENED FORM OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE (1) Any person shall, on payment of a fee of sixpence and on furnishing the prescribed particulars, be entitled to obtain from the Superintendent Registrar or a Registrar a certificate in the prescribed form of the birth of any person compiled from the records and registers in the custody of the Superintendent Registrar or from the registers in the custody of that Registrar, as the case may be. (2) The States may make regulations prescribing the forms of certificate to be issued under this Article, the particulars to be furnished by applicants for certificates thereunder, the manner in which those certificates are to be compiled, and the particulars which are to be contained therein, so, however, that no certificate issued under this Article shall include any particulars except the name, surname, sex and date of birth, and such other particulars, if any, as may be prescribed, not being particulars relating to parentage or adoption. (3) Regulations made under this Article may be amended by subsequent regulations and shall remain in force until repealed. ARTICLE 3 SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Law may be cited as the Birth Certificate (Shortened Form) (Jersey) Law, 1950. (2) This Law shall come into operation on the promulgation thereof for the purpose of making regulations thereunder, and, for all other purposes, on the day of which the first regulations made under this Law come into force. To be printed, published and posted. R.F. RENAULT, Deputy Greffier of the States. 1 Tome I, pages 276.