Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997
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39 The register (1) The registrar-general must maintain a register or registers of registrable events. (2) The register— (a) must contain the particulars of each registrable event required under this or any other Act to be included in the register; and (b) may contain any further information that is authorised by this Act or a regulation. (3) The register may be completely or partly in the form of a computer database, in documentary form or in any other form that the registrar- general considers appropriate. (4) The registrar-general must maintain the indexes to the register that are necessary to make the information in the register reasonably accessible.