Registration of Births Act, 1996

Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement.

7.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Registration of Births Act, 1996.

(2) The Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1863 to 1994, section 1 (4) of, and the Schedule to, the Legitimacy Act, 1931 , and this Act may be cited together as the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1863 to 1996, and shall be construed together as one.

(3) This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Minister for Equality and Law Reform may appoint by order.