Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14)

Valid from 01/10/2006

Part 2 S Registration services

Other provisions about information held by Registrar General S

56 Provision of registration information to public bodies and office-holders S

(1) The Registrar General may provide any information contained in a register mentioned in subsection (2) to any public body or office-holder (in Scotland, in any other part of the United Kingdom or in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom).

(2) Those registers are—

(a) a register of births, still-births, deaths or marriages transmitted to the Registrar General under the 1965 Act or any enactment repealed by that Act;

(b) a Register of Corrections Etc. or a civil partnership register transmitted to the Registrar General under the 1965 Act;

(c) the Register of Divorces;

(d) the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership.

(3) The Registrar General may charge for the provision of information under this section.