2011 No. 265

Registration Of Births, Deaths, Marriages,etc.

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

Made

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

Coming into force

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 20061 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 commencement1

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 20062

In the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 20062 in Schedule 2, entry 3, column 2, after “The” the first time it occurs, insert “Statistics Board3, the”.

DUNCAN MACNIVENRegistrar General for ScotlandNew Register House,Edinburgh

Approved by the Scottish Ministers

FIONA HYSLOPA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh
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.