Registration Service Act 1953

18 Temporary provisions as to non-salaried officers. E+W

(1) This section shall apply to any superintendent registrar or registrar of births and deaths who holds that office at the commencement of this Act and is not then a salaried officer in respect of that office, unless and until he becomes a salaried officer in respect of that office.

(2) Subsection (3) of section six of this Act shall not apply in relation to any officer to whom this section applies but he shall be entitled to retain any fees received by or payable to him in respect of the execution of his duties under the Registration Acts:

Provided that he shall at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed account to the Registrar General for and pay to the council of the [F1 non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] in which his district or sub-district is situated so much of the aggregate sum received by or payable to him by way of those fees as the Registrar General may certify to represent an amount equal to—

(a) one third part of any fees under the M1 Marriage Act 1949; plus

(b) one third part of any fees under the M2 Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 other than under subsection (3) of section eleven, section twelve, section fourteen or section twenty-four thereof; plus

(c) one fourth part of any fees under the said section twelve,

less such deduction as the Registrar General may allow as remuneration to him for the trouble and expense of collecting and accounting for those parts of those fees.

(3) Any superintendent registrar to whom this section applies shall four times in every year make up an account of the number of entries in the certified copies of entries in registers of live-births, still-births, deaths and marriages sent by him to the Registrar General during the preceding three months under section fifty-eight of the M3 Marriage Act 1949 or section twenty-seven of the M4 Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 and shall be entitled to receive from the Registrar General the sum of twopence for each entry in those certified copies.

(4) Any registrar of births and deaths to whom this section applies shall four times in every year make out an account of the number of births and deaths which he has registered since the last quarterly account and the superintendent registrar for the district in which the registrar’s sub-district is situated shall verify and sign the account; and the council of the [F1 non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] in which the registrar’s sub-district is situated shall pay to the registrar—

(a) for each of the first twenty entries in the account, whether of live-births, still-births or deaths, the sum of [F2 12½p]; and

(b) for each such entry after the first twenty, the sum of [F2 5p]:

Provided that during the continuance in force of the M5 Population (Statistics) Act 1938 paragraph (b) of this subsection shall have effect as if for the sum of [F2 5p] there were substituted the sum of one shilling and fivepence.

(5) Upon an application for the purpose being made, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, by any officer to whom this section applies, he shall, as from such date (not being later than the beginning of the next financial year) as may be fixed by the council of the [F1 non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] in which his district or sub-district is situated, become a salaried officer.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 29 para. 41(2)

F2 Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 References to twopence and one shilling and fivepence to be read as references to equivalent amounts in new currency: Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)

C2 Power to amend s. 18(3)(4) conferred by Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968 (c. 14), s. 5, Sch. 3

Marginal Citations

M1 1949 c. 76.

M2 1953 c. 20

M3 1949 c. 76.

M4 1953 c. 20.

M5 1938 c. 12.