Part 2Registration service
68Establishment of Registrar General as corporation sole
(1)
Section 1 of the Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37) is amended as follows—
(a)
renumber the existing provision as subsection (1);
(b)
“(2)
The Registrar General is a corporation sole by the name of the Registrar General for England and Wales.
(3)
The Registrar General may do anything (including acquire or dispose of any property or rights) which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of any of his functions.
(4)
The Registrar General discharges his functions on behalf of the Crown.
(5)
Service as Registrar General is not service in the civil service of the Crown; but the Registrar General is a Crown servant for the purposes of the Official Secrets Act 1989.”
(2)
Subject to section 57, the property, rights and liabilities of the Registrar General on the commencement of this section shall at that time become the property, rights and liabilities of the Registrar General as a corporation sole.