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

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2817 (S.216)

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.

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

Made

12th December 1991

Laid before Parliament

20th December 1991

Coming into force

1st April 1992

The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 28A(4), 37(2) and (3), 38(2) and (3), 40(1), 43(8), 47, 54(1) and 56 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the approval of the Secretary of State, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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(2) 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(3) 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(4) 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

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE 1 FEES PAYABLE TO REGISTRAR GENERAL

1	2	3	4
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965	Service	Fee formerly payable	Fee payable under these Regulations
		£	£
Sections 28A(4), 38(2) and (3) and 47	Issue of– first or only extract of entry following particular search of the statutory registers where application made– (a) in person	7.50	8.00
	(b) by post	9.50	10.50
	(2) first or only extract of entry following particular search of the parochial registers where application made– (a) in person	10.00	10.50
	(b) by post	12.00	13.00
	(3) second or any subsequent extract of the same entry in any register under (1) or (2) above applied for at the same time	5.00	5.50
	(4) extract of entry following general search	5.00	5.50
Section 40(1)	(5) first or only abbreviated certificate of birth following particular search where application made– (a) in person	6.50	8.00
	(b) by post	8.50	10.50
	(6) second or any subsequent abbreviated certificate of the same entry applied for at the same time	4.00	5.50
	(7) abbreviated certificate applied for at the same time as an extract of the same entry following particular search	4.00	5.50
	(8) abbreviated certificate of birth following general search	4.00	5.50
Section 28A(4), 38(2) and 47	(9) Particular search for each period of 5 years or part thereof in the indexes to the statutory registers where specified entry untraced, and application made– (a) in person	2.50	2.50
	(b) by post	4.50	5.00
	(10) Particular search for each period of 5 years or part thereof in the parochial registers where specified entry untraced, and application made– (a) in person	5.00	5.00
	(b) by post	7.00	7.50
	(11) General search in the indexes to the statutory registers: per day or part thereof	9.00	10.00
	(12) General search in the parochial registers: per day or part thereof	8.00	10.00
	(13) Inclusive general search in the parochial registers and in the indexes to the statutory registers–
	per day or part thereof	15.00	15.00
	per week	50.00	52.00
	per four weeks	—	160.00
	per quarter	300.00	350.00
	per year	—	1,200.00
Section 43(8)	(14) Recording of name, or change of name or surname, or alternative name	22.00	30.00
	(15) Recording of name, or change of name or surname, or alternative name as in (14) above for second or any subsequent members of the family intimated at the same time	22.00	10.00

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 2 FEES PAYABLE TO DISTRICT REGISTRARS

1	2	3	4
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965	Service	Fee formerly payable	Fee payable under these Regulations
		£	£
Section 37(2) and (3)	Issue of— any extract of entry of birth, death or marriage applied for within one month from the date of registration	5.00	5.50
	(2) first or only extract of entry of birth, death or marriage applied for on any one occasion after one month from the date of registration	7.50	8.00
	(3) second or any subsequent extract of the same entry applied for on any one occasion after one month from the date of registration	5.00	5.50
	(4) extract of entry following general search	5.00	5.50
Section 40(1)	(5) any abbreviated certificate of birth applied for within one month from the date of registration	4.00	5.50
	(6) first or only abbreviated certificate applied for on any one occasion after one month from the date of registration	6.50	8.00
	(7) second or any subsequent abbreviated certificate of the same entry applied for on any one occasion after one month from the date of registration	4.00	5.50
	(8) abbreviated certificate of birth applied for after one month from the date of registration at the same time as an extract of the same entry following a particular search	4.00	5.50
	(9) abbreviated certificate of birth following general search	4.00	5.50
Section 37(2)	(10) Particular search in the indexes to the statutory registers where specified entry untraced: for each period of 5 years or part thereof	2.50	2.50
	(11) General search in the indexes to the statutory registers: per 2 hours or part thereof	4.00 (per hour or part thereof)	10.00

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe, with effect from 1st April 1992, the fees payable to the Registrar General and district registrars for services provided under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965.

The fees for the services listed in Schedule 1 are increased except items (9)(a), 10(a) and 13 (daily rate) which are the same. Two new fee rates-per four weeks and per year have been introduced to item (13). Item (15) introduces a lower fee for recording change of name etc. as in (14) for second or any subsequent members of the family intimated at the same time. The fees for services listed in Schedule 2 are increased except item (10) which remains the same. A fee rate for a new minimum period of two hours for a general search is introduced in item (11).

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

(1)

1965 c. 49; section 28A was inserted by section 50(1) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73); section 54(1) was amended by the Children Act 1975 (c. 72), Schedule 4, Part III and by the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15), Schedule 3; section 56 contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

(2)

Column 3 of Schedule 1 shows the amounts which were payable under S.I. 1990/2638.

(3)

Column 3 of Schedule 2 shows the amounts which were payable under S.I. 1990/2638.

(4)

S.I. 1990/2638.