Part 2Registration services

Reorganisation of local registration services

37Registration districts and authorities

(1)

The 1965 Act is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (6).

(2)

For section 5 (registration districts and authorities) there is substituted—

“5Registration districts and local registration authorities

(1)

For the purposes of this Act, the area of each local authority shall be a registration district.

(2)

There shall be a local registration authority for each registration district.

(3)

The local registration authority for a registration district shall be the local authority whose area comprises that district.”.

(3)

Section 6 (alteration of registration districts) is repealed.

(4)

In section 7 (senior and district registrars and other staff)—

(a)

in subsection (1), for “each registration district in their area” there is substituted “their registration district”;

(b)

in subsection (1)(a), for “any registration district in their area” there is substituted “their registration district”;

(c)

in subsection (1)(c), for “any registration district in their area” there is substituted “their registration district”;

(d)

in subsection (8), for “any”, where first occurring, there is substituted “their”; and

(e)

in subsection (11)(a), the words “or in a scheme under the last foregoing section” and “or of any such scheme” are repealed.

(5)

In section 8 (registration offices)—

(a)

in subsection (1), for “each registration district in their area” there is substituted “their registration district”; and

(b)

in subsection (4)—

(i)

for “each registration district in their area” there is substituted “their registration district”;

(ii)

for “the office” there is substituted “those premises”; and

(iii)

for “the last foregoing subsection” there is substituted “subsection (3) above”.

(6)

In section 9(1) (provision of area repositories), for “area” there is substituted “registration district”.