HMSO - Guidance Note - CROWN COPYRIGHT

>> Completed certificates

8. Government policy is not to authorise the copying of completed certificates except in the following circumstances:

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(d) within works of genealogical research undertaken by or on behalf of the family concerned where the work in question will be given limited distribution only. For the avoidance of doubt, a work will NOT be regarded as being given limited distribution if it is placed on the Internet;

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(f) by the transcribing and copying of the information contained in a certificate. The copyright does not subsist in the information on the certificate, but in the presentation of the information.<<

and it is the law.