The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 2 REVOCATIONS AND AMENDMENTS

PART 1 Revocations

1.  The instruments specified in column 1 of the table below, with the reference in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that table, are revoked.

Table

Column 1 Instrument title	Column 2 Reference
The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 2010	2010/441
The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2012	2012/760
The Register of Presumed Deaths (Fees) Regulations 2014	2014/2386
The Registration of Civil Partnerships (Fees) Order 2014	2014/1789
The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2014	2014/1790
The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages and Registration of Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2015	2015/117

PART 2 Amendments

The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Registration of Buildings and Appointment of Authorised Persons) Regulations 2014

2.—(1) The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Registration of Buildings and Appointment of Authorised Persons) Regulations 2014(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), before the entry for “registered building” insert—

““appropriate fee” means the fee payable by virtue of regulations made under section 71A of the Marriage Act 1949;”.

(3) For regulation 4(2)(d) (application for registration of a building) substitute—

“(d) pay the appropriate fee to the superintendent registrar.”

(4) For regulation 10(2)(b) (modification of procedure for joint applications under section 41 and section 43A), substitute—

“(b) the applicant must pay the fee payable by virtue of regulations made under section 71A of the Act for a joint application made under section 41(1) and 43A of the Act, but the fee under regulation 4(2)(d) does not apply.”.

The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014

3.—(1) The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), before the entry for “authorised person” insert—

““appropriate fee” means the fee set out in the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016;”.

(3) For regulation 6(1)(d) (standard procedure for conversion) substitute—

“(d) the parties must pay the appropriate fee to the superintendent registrar.”

(4) For regulation 7(3)(e) (procedure for housebound persons) substitute—

“(e) the parties must pay the appropriate fee to the superintendent registrar.”

(5) For regulation 8(3)(e) (procedure for detained persons) substitute—

“(e) the parties must pay the appropriate fee to the superintendent registrar.”

(6) For regulation 9(2)(c) (the special procedure) substitute—

“(c) pay the appropriate fee to the superintendent registrar.”

(7) In regulation 10(2)(d) (the two stage procedure), for “fee of £27.00” substitute “appropriate fee”.

(a) For regulation 11(5) (conversion on secular premises) substitute—

“(5) The fee for a conversion on secular premises referred to in paragraph (2)(a) and (3)—

(a) is payable to the superintendent registrar of the registration district in which the conversion is to take place; and

(b) is of an amount to be determined by the authority as reasonably representing all the costs to it of providing a superintendent registrar to attend at the conversion.”

(8) In regulation 12 (conversion on religious premises)—

(a) in paragraph 12(2)(a) before “fee for a conversion” insert “appropriate”;

(b) in paragraph (3) before “fee” insert “appropriate”; and

(c) omit paragraph (4).

(9) Omit regulations 15 (waiver of fees) and 16.

(10) In regulation 18(4) (duty to register marriage resulting from conversion), for “a fee of £4.00” substitute “the appropriate fee”.

(11) In regulation 23(2) (searches of indexes of conversion records kept by the Registrar General and issue of copies), for “fee of £9.25” substitute “appropriate fee”.

(12) In regulation 24(2) (searches of indexes of conversion records kept by the superintendent registrar and issue of copies), for “fee of £10.00” substitute “appropriate fee”.

The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2015

4.  In regulation 9(5) of the Registration of Marriages Regulations 2015(2), for “an order under section 31(5F) of the Act”, substitute “regulations made under section 71A of the Act”.

(1)

S.I. 2014/106.

(2)

S.I. 2015/207.