Abolition of requirement to keep general registers
3.—(1) Section 140 (duties to keep and to make entries in general registers and to provide extracts on request) of the 1961 Act is repealed.
(2) In section 141 (preservation of registers and records) of the 1961 Act for “The general register and every other register” substitute “Any register”.
(3) The repeal by this regulation of section 140 of the 1961 Act does not affect subsection (3) of that section in its application to a register required to be kept under the Employment of Women, Young Persons and Children Act 1920(1).
(4) The references to a register in section 141 of the 1961 Act as amended by paragraph (2) do not include a reference to a general register previously required by that section to be kept and preserved unless it contains a record that was entered in or attached to the register in pursuance of section 39(2) (record of gasholder examinations) of that Act within the period of two years ending with the commencement date.
(5) In the case of a general register containing such a record, section 141 of the 1961 Act is to be read as requiring the record to be preserved and kept available for inspection for at least two years after the date of the last record entered in or attached to the register.