The Registration Services (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Registration Services (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st March 2007.

Amendment of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1965

2.—(1) The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1965(1) are amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) At the end of regulation 2(1), add

• “; and

• “written authority” includes authority sent as an electronic document which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.”.

(3) In regulation 3 (re-registration of births)–

(a) in paragraph (1), after “except”, insert “under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Re-registration (Scotland) Regulations 2007(2) or”; and

(b) in paragraph (2), omit “so authorised”.

(4) For regulation 6(2) substitute–

“(2) The registrar shall enter in the register–

(a) the particulars included in the written authority of the Registrar General; or

(b) the particulars required as a consequence of re-registration under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Re-registration (Scotland) Regulations 2007.

(3) The registrar shall append to the signature of the informant the qualification of the informant and the date of re-registration and the registrar shall sign the entry.”.

(5) In regulations 9, 10, 11 and 12, for “abbreviated certificate” each time it occurs, substitute “abbreviated extract”.

(6) In regulation 12, omit “certificate or”.

Register of Divorces – extracts received in electronic form

3.  In the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1997(3)–

(a) regulation 27 (form of the Register of Divorces) becomes paragraph (1), and

(b) after that paragraph, insert–

“(2) Such extracts may be copies of extracts received in electronic form from the Court of Session or the sheriff court.”.

Particulars contained in abbreviated extracts of birth

4.  In regulation 4 (form etc. of abbreviated extracts of birth) of the Registration of Births, Still births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms and Errors) (Scotland) Regulations 2006(4)–

(a) after “register of births” insert “or in the Adopted Children Register(5)”; and

(b) for paragraph (g), substitute–

“(g) where the person was born or (for an extract based on information contained in the Adopted Children Register) country of birth.”.

PAUL M PARR

Deputy Registrar General for Scotland

New Register House,

Edinburgh

6th February 2007

Approved by the Scottish Ministers

GEORGE LYON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

6th February 2007