Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006

41 Re-registration of births

(1) The 1965 Act is amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3).

(2) In section 20 (re-registration of birth)—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) in paragraph (c), after “another”, where secondly occurring, there is inserted “and subject to subsection (1B) below”;

(ii) for the words from “Registrar”, where first occurring, to “birth”, where first occurring, there is substituted “birth may, where subsection (1A) below applies, be re-registered”;

(iii) for the words from “Provided” to “birth”, where secondly occurring, there is substituted—

“(1A) This subsection applies—

(a) where the Registrar General authorises the re-registration, and

(b) in such other cases or classes of case as may be prescribed.

(1B) A birth may not be re-registered”; and

(iv) for “this subsection” there is substituted “subsection (1) above”; and

(b) subsection (3) is repealed.

(3) In section 54 (parliamentary procedure), in subsection (2)—

(a) the words “prescribing fees for the purposes of this Act” become paragraph (a) of that subsection; and

(b) after “Act” there is inserted—

“(b) prescribing cases or classes of case for the purpose of section 20(1A)(b) of this Act,”.