1996 No. 574 (S.55)
The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 28A(4), 38(2), 43(8), 47, 54(1) and 56 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 19651, 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 commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.
Interpretation2
Amendment of the principal Regulations
3
At the end of regulation 5(c) of the principal Regulations the full stop shall be deleted and there shall be inserted the following:—
; or
d
the Registrar General has—
i
received a notice concerning a death from a procurator-fiscal under section 28(1)(b) of the 1965 Act and has thereupon caused to be made such entry in the Register of Corrections Etc., as he thinks proper;
ii
notified the person named as the informant in the relevant entry in the register of deaths, in writing, of the matters referred to in paragraph (d)(i) above;
iii
received within one month of the date of receipt of such notification a request in writing from that person for an extract of the relevant entry in the register of deaths showing the annotation set out in the relative insertion in the Register of Corrections Etc.
4
In the entry numbered 11 in column 2 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (general search in both the parochial registers and in the indexes to the statutory registers), there shall be substituted, for the words “(a) In a case” in that column to the end of that entry, (including the corresponding entries in columns 3 and 4 of that Schedule), the following entries4:—
a
in a case where payment is made not less than 14 days in advance and a place is occupied in the limited amount of general search accommodation made available for reservation at this fee—
per day or part thereof
12.00
13.00
b
in any other case—
per afternoon or part thereof (being any time after 1300 hours)
9.00
10.00
per day
16.00
17.00
per week
60.00
65.00
per four weeks
200.00
220.00
per quarter
455.00
500.00
per year
1,350.00
1,350.00
5
In the entry numbered 12 in column 2 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (Recording of name, or change of name or surname, or alternative name) there shall be substituted, for the words “Recording of name” in that column to the end of that entry (including the corresponding entries in columns 3 and 4 of that Schedule), the following entries5
Recording of name, or change of name or surname, or alternative name
30.00
34.00
Revocation6
Regulation 4 of the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 19956 is hereby revoked.
Approved by the Secretary of State
(This note is not part of the Regulations)