http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/20/section/31Civil Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 2011An Act to amend the Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 and the Presumption of Death Act (Northern Ireland) 2009; to provide for access to information relating to marriages and civil partnerships and information contained in the Adopted Children Register and the Gender Recognition Register, for the notification of the registration of marriages and civil partnerships, for the Registrar General to supply commemorative documents and for a register called the Record of Northern Ireland Connections; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2016-09-22Expert Participation2012-11-16 311The Registrar General shall maintain—aa register called the Record of Northern Ireland Connections in which shall be made entries under this section; andban index of the register.2Any person may apply to the Registrar General in the prescribed manner for an event mentioned in Schedule 1 to be entered in the register in the prescribed form on payment of the prescribed fee to the Registrar General.3The Registrar General may amend or delete any entry made under this section.4Any person may on payment of the prescribed fee to the Registrar General—asearch the index,bhave access to any information contained in the register, andcrequire the Registrar General to provide a copy of any entry in the register.5In this section—“prescribed” means—except in the case of any fee, prescribed by regulations made by the Department of Finance and Personnel;in the case of any fee, prescribed by order made under Article 47 of the 1976 Order;“register” means the Record of Northern Ireland Connections established under subsection (1).6Regulations under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.S. 31 in operation at 16.11.2012 by S.R. 2012/406, art. 2, Sch.