The National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 265

Registration Of Births, Deaths, Marriages,etc.

The National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011

Made

1st June 2011

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

2nd June 2011

Coming into force

1st July 2011

The Registrar General makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 57(4) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006(1) and all other powers enabling him to do so.

The Scottish Ministers have approved the making of these Regulations in accordance with section 60(1) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 and come into force on 1st July 2011.

Amendment to the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006

2.  In the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006(2) in Schedule 2, entry 3, column 2, after “The” the first time it occurs, insert “Statistics Board(3), the”.

DUNCAN MACNIVEN

Registrar General for Scotland

New Register House,

Edinburgh

1st June 2011

Approved by the Scottish Ministers

FIONA HYSLOP

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

1st June 2011

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006 which prescribe the information that can be shared by the Registrar General for Scotland in operating the National Health Service Central Register for Scotland.

They make an amendment to update the bodies with which information can be shared following the transfer of certain functions of the Office of National Statistics to the Statistics Board (also known as the UK Statistics Authority) established by the Statistics and Registration Services Act 2007 (c.18) for England and Wales.

(1)

2006 asp 14 (“the 2006 Act”). Section 57 was amended by section 60(2) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c.18). Section 60 of the 2006 Act contains a definition of “prescribed” and applies a definition of “Registrar General” in section 1 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c.49) relevant to the exercise of statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

(2)

S.S.I. 2006/484, amended by S.S.I. 2008/358.

(3)

The Statistics Board (Am Bòrd an Staitistig) established under section 1 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c.18) is also known as the UK Statistics Authority.