The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees)(Amendment) Order 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 760

Registration Of Births, Deaths And Marriages, Etc., England And Wales

The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees)(Amendment) Order 2012

Made

8th March 2012

Laid before Parliament

9th March 2012

Coming into force

1st April 2012

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers, now vested in her, conferred(1) by section 5(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968(2).

(1)

Functions previously conferred on the” Chancellor of the Exchequer” were transferred by the second column of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968 (c. 14) articles 3(1) and 5(1) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 to, the Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/273); and references to the “Secretary of State” were subsequently substituted in the second column of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to that Act by articles 3(1) and 5(1) of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to, the Transfer of Functions (Registration) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/678).

(2)

1968 c. 14. Paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 was amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6); and by section 582(1) of, and paragraph 14 of Schedule 37 to, the Education Act 1996 (c. 56). Under section 2(2) of the Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32) the reference to the Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76) in Schedule 3 includes a reference to that Act as amended by the Marriage Act 1983. Other changes have been made which are not relevant to this Order.