Part 2Registration services
Other provisions about information held by Registrar General
56Provision of registration information to public bodies and office-holders
(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of births, still-births, deaths or marriages transmitted to the Registrar General under the 1965 Act or any enactment repealed by that Act;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.