These Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1998 to introduce new fees in relation to bulk particular searches, and to remove or increase certain other fees, with effect from 1st October 2002.

The Regulations introduce a set fee of £100 payable in respect of each bulk particular search in the indexes to the statutory registers under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (“the 1965 Act”). In addition there is a fee of £0.01 for each record searched, up to 20,000 records, and £0.01 for every group of ten records (or part thereof) over that number (regulation 4(c)).

A separate fee is no longer payable for a particular search in the indexes to the statutory or parochial registers where the application is made by electronic mail (regulation 4(a) and (b)).

The fee payable for the second and each subsequent hour of a general search in the indexes to the statutory registers under the 1965 Act is increased from £5.00 to £10.00 (regulation 5).

The fee payable for the issue of an extract of an entry in a statutory register, or of certain abbreviated birth certificates, under the 1965 Act is increased from £8 to £8.50 (regulation 6).

The fee payable under the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 for the submission of a marriage notice is increased from £13 to £20 (regulation 7).