Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 3152
The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1996
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1996 No. 3152
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.
ENGLAND AND WALES
The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1996
| Laid before Parliament | 17th December 1996 |
| Coming into force | 1st April 1997 |
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968[1] and now vested in him[2] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.
(2) In this Order a reference to a numbered column is to the column in the Schedule to this Order bearing that number.
Fees payable
2. In each enactment specified in column (2) in relation to which there is an entry in column (5), for the sum specified in column (5) there is substituted the sum specified in relation to it in column (4); and the fee payable in England and Wales under each of the enactments specified in column (2) in respect of a matter or case specified in column (3) is that specified in relation to that matter or case in column (4).
Revocation of The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1995
3. The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1995[3] (under which the fees payable were as respectively set out in column (5) of the Schedule to this Order) is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Angela Knight
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
16th December 1996
Notes:[1] 1968 c. 14; paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 was amended by section 116(1) and paragraph 21 of Schedule 9 to the Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), and by section 4 and paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6). By virtue of section 2(2) of the Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32) the reference to the Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76) in the said Schedule 3 includes a reference to that Act as amended by the 1983 Act.
[2] References to "the Chancellor of the Exchequer" were substituted in the second column of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 by article 5(1) of and paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 to the Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/273).
[3] S.I. 1995/3162.
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