§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will take steps to ensure that Cornish babies born in Plymouth, Devon, against the will of their parents, are registered as having been born in Cornwall.
§ Dr. OwenNo. The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 requires every birth to be recorded in the register kept by the registrar for the sub-district in which the child was born, and the prescribed form of entry in the register includes the place of the child's birth. It would be a falsification of the register to record a place278W of birth other than that where the child was actually born.
Where a birth occurs elsewhere than at the mother's home her usual address is also shown in the entry.