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Statutory Instrument 1993 No. 3153 (S.302)

The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1993

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1993 No. 3153 (S.302)

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.

The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1993

Made14th December 1993
Laid before Parliament16th December 1993
Coming into force1st April 1994

    The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 28A(4), 37(2) and (3), 38(2) and (3), 40(1), 43(8), 47, 54(1) and 56 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965[1], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the approval of the Secretary of State, hereby makes the following Regulations:
    Citation and commencement
        1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.
    Interpretation
        2.    In these Regulations-

    "the Act" means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965;

    "general search" means a search, over any period of years for any number of entries, made by any person with the permission of the Registrar General or the district registrar;

    "particular search" means a search for a specified entry caused to be made by the Registrar General or made by a district registrar.
    Fees payable to Registrar General
        3.    Subject to regulation 5, the fees payable under the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule shall be the amounts specified in column 4 thereof (the amounts previously prescribed[2] are specified in column 3 of that Schedule).
    Fees payable to district registrars
        4.    Subject to regulation 5, the fees payable under the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule shall be the amounts specified in column 4 thereof (the amounts previously prescribed[3] are specified in column 3 of that Schedule).
    Remission of fees
        5.    The Registrar General may remit any fee or part of a fee where-
       (a) the payment of the fee is likely to cause hardship to the person by whom it is payable; or
       (b) the service in respect of which the fee is payable is performed for research purposes; or
       (c) an extract has been requested by the father or mother of a still-born child within one month of the date of registration of the still-birth, and the Registrar General consents in terms of section 37(3) of the Act to the extract being issued from the register of still-births.
    Revocation
        6.    The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1992[4] are hereby revoked.



C M Glennie

Registrar General
New Register House, Edinburgh

9th December 1993
Approved by the Secretary of State for Scotland

Fraser of Carmyllie

Minister of State, Scottish Office
St. Andrew's House, Edinburgh

14th December 1993




Notes:

[1] 1965 c. 49; section 28A was inserted by section 50(1) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73); section 54(1) was amended by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Schedule 4, Part III and by the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15), Schedule 3; section 56 contains a definition of "prescribed" relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

[2] S.I. 1992/3215.

[3] S.I. 1992/3215.

[4] S.I. 1992/3215.

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