Stillbirths Registration Act, 1994

Entries in stillbirths registers.

8.—(1) Entries in a stillbirths register shall be forwarded by the registrar to the appropriate superintendent-registrar and by the superintendent-registrar to an tArd-Chláraitheoir from time to time as an tArd-Chláraitheoir may direct.

(2) Where an entry in a stillbirths register is forwarded by a registrar to a superintendent-registrar, or by a superintendent-registrar to an tArd-Chláraitheoir, no copy of that entry shall be retained by the registrar or by the superintendent-registrar.

(3) No person, other than an tArd-Chláraitheoir, shall be entitled to search a register save only in the exercise of functions conferred on any such person by this Act.

(4) A certified copy of an entry in a register shall be provided, only in the following circumstances:

(a) where registration is effected as the result of information provided by the mother or the father of the stillborn child, the mother or the father of the stillborn child shall be provided, on request, with a certified copy of the register entry at the time of registration;

(b) the mother or father of the stillborn child shall thereafter be entitled to obtain a certified copy of an entry in the register, if an tArd-Chláraitheoir, or a person to whom an tArd-Chláraitheoir delegates this power, is satisfied that the person making the request is the mother or the father of the stillborn child to whom the entry relates;

(c) certified copies of register entries shall be made available to other persons only at the discretion of an tArd-Chláraitheoir.