Section 10
Special provision as to registration of stillbirth
of Births and Deaths Registration Act 1957
Any qualified informant giving information to the Registrar of the particulars required to be registered concerning a stillbirth shall upon giving that information either—
(a)
deliver to the Registrar a written certificate signed by a registered medical practitioner or a registered midwife who was in attendance at the birth or who has examined the body of the child that the child was not born alive; or
(b)
make a declaration in the prescribed form to the effect that no registered medical practitioner or registered midwife was present at the birth or has examined the body and that a certificate of a registered medical practitioner or a registered midwife cannot be obtained and that the child was not born alive.