The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations–

“the Act” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965;

“general search” means a search, over any period of years for any number of entries, made by any person with the permission of the Registrar General or the district registrar;

“particular search” means a search for a specified entry caused to be made by the Registrar General or made by a district registrar.

Fees payable to Registrar General

3.  Subject to regulation 5, the fees payable under the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule shall (in place of the amounts previously prescribed which are specified in column 3 thereof(1) be the amounts specified in column 4 of that Schedule.

Fees payable to district registrars

4.  Subject to regulation 5, the fees payable under the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule shall (in place of the amounts previously prescribed which are specified in column 3 thereof(2) be the amounts specified in column 4 of that Schedule.

Remission of fees

5.  The Registrar General may remit any fee or part of a fee where the payment of the fee is likely to cause hardship to the person by whom it is payable or the service in respect of which the fee is payable is performed for research purposes.

Revocation

6.  The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1990(3) are hereby revoked.

C.M. Glennie

Registrar General

New Register House,

Edinburgh

11th December 1991

Approved by the Secretary of State

Michael B. Forsyth

Minister of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

12th December 1991