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Scottish Statutory Instruments
Registration Of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Etc.
Made
23rd February 2022
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
25th February 2022
Coming into force
1st May 2022
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 and come into force on 1 May 2022.
2.—(1) The Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2006(5) are amended as follows.
(2) In schedule 3 (fees payable under the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 and the Civil Partnership Act 2004 – marriage and registration)—
(a)in Part I (fees payable under the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977), in column 3, for “£30.00” substitute “£45.00”.
(b)in Part II (fees payable under the Civil Partnership Act 2004 – registration), in column 3, for “£30.00” substitute “£45.00”.
ROD BURNS
Deputy Registrar General for Scotland
New Register House,
Edinburgh
23rd February 2022
Approved by the Scottish Ministers
ANGUS ROBERTSON
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House
Edinburgh
23rd February 2022
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend fees payable under the Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 in connection with services provided by District Registrars under the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 and the Civil Partnership Act 2004. The Regulations increase the fee payable on submission of a marriage notice or a notice of a proposed civil partnership from £30 to £45.
1977 c. 15 (“the 1977 Act”); section 3(1) was relevantly amended by section 50(2)(a) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14) (“the 2006 Act”); section 26(1), read in conjunction with section 1 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c. 49) contains a definition of “Registrar General” relevant to the statutory powers under which these regulations are made; section 26(2) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the statutory powers under which these regulations are made.
2004 c. 33; section 88(2) was amended by section 52(2)(b) of the 2006 Act; section 126(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” and section 135 contains a definition of “Registrar General” relevant to the statutory powers under which these regulations are made.
The functions of the Secretary of State under the 1977 Act were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).
Section 126 was amended by section 24(20) of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5).
S.S.I. 2006/575; relevant amending instruments are S.S.I. 2009/64 and S.S.I. 2010/92.
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