Part 2Registration services
Recording of events relating to persons outwith Scotland
55Keeping of, and access to, the Book of Scottish Connections
1
The BSC is to be kept in such form as the Registrar General determines.
2
An entry in the BSC is to be in such form as may be prescribed.
3
Each entry in the BSC is to be included in an index maintained by the Registrar General (“the BSC index”).
4
The BSC index is to be kept in such form as the Registrar General determines.
5
The Registrar General may delete or amend any entry in the BSC or substitute another for it.
6
Where a person pays such fee as may be prescribed, the Registrar General is, if the General Register Office is open for the purpose, to—
a
search (or permit the person to search) the BSC index; and
b
issue to the person a copy of an entry in the BSC.
7
The Registrar General is to make arrangements for the district registrar for each registration district to have access to—
a
a copy of such of, or such parts of, the BSC as the Registrar General may determine; and
b
an index of that material.
8
For the purposes of subsection (7)—
a
a copy is to be made by such means as the Registrar General may determine; and
b
different arrangements and determinations may be made in respect of different registration districts.
9
Where a person pays such fee as may be prescribed, the district registrar for a registration district is, if the part of the registration office concerned is open for the purpose, to—
a
search (or permit the person to search) the index to which the registrar has access by virtue of subsection (7)(b); and
b
issue to the person a copy or extract of any of the material so indexed.