22 NOVEMBER 1946, Page 17

A SHORTER BIRTH CERTIFICATE

Snt,—I refer to the second paragraph of your Notebook in The Spectatcr of November 8th. You may be interested to know that provision exists in Scotland for the issue of an abbreviated birth certificate from which all particulars of parentage and illegitimacy are omitted. That provision is contained in Section 4 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) (Amendment) Act, 1934, and the relative regulations are known as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations (Scot- land) 1934 (S.R. and 0. 1934, No. 983, p. 166). The form of abbreviated certificate is set out in the schedule to those regulations.—Yours sincerely,