Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994

51 Registration of births, deaths and marriages

(1) The [1965 c. 49.] Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(2) For section 5(3) (registration districts and registration authorities) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

“(3) For each registration district there shall be a local registration authority which shall be the local authority in whose area the registration office or the principal premises of that office are, immediately before the commencement of section 51 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, situated.”.

(3) In section 8 (registration offices)—

(a) in subsection (1), after the words “registration office” there shall be inserted the words “which may comprise principal premises and such subordinate premises as they may, with the approval of the Registrar General, consider appropriate”; and

(b) at the end there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(6) References in this Act to the registration office shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as including all the premises provided and maintained by a local registration authority as parts of the registration office.”.

(4) In section 15 (information concerning finding of infant children)—

(a) in subsections (1) and (3), for the words “director of social work” there shall be substituted “chief social work officer”; and

(b) subsection (4) shall cease to have effect.

(5) In section 56(1) (interpretation), after the definition of “function” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;”.