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Local organisation of registration serviceE+W

13 Local schemes of organisation.E+W

(1)There shall be in force for each [F1non-metropolitan county and metropolitan district] a scheme or schemes (in this Act referred to as “the local scheme”) prepared and made in accordance with the next following section.

(2)Provision shall be made by the local scheme for—

(a)determining the number and boundaries of the registration districts and sub-districts in the [F2non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district];

(b)determining the location of offices and stations for those districts and sub-districts;

(c)determining the number of superintendent registrars, registrars of births and deaths and other officers required for the purposes of the Registration Acts within the [F2non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district];

(d)subject to such exceptions, if any, as may be specified in the scheme, conferring and imposing on registrars of births and deaths the functions of registrars of marriages;

(e)fixing, subject to such power of revision as may be provided by the scheme, the salary and other remuneration, if any, to be attached to each office, and the allowances, if any, to be paid for travelling, for the provision of office accommodation and for other expenses;

(f)fixing, subject to such power of revision as may be provided by the scheme, the conditions on which an office is to be held, F3...;

(g)applying with any necessary modifications, adaptations and exceptions the provisions of the Local Government Act M1 1929 relating to the transfer, superannuation and compensation of officers;

(h)conferring on the [F4proper officer of the non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] powers with respect to—

(i)the fixing of the hours of attendance of officers;

(ii)the distribution of business between officers;

(iii)the transfer of superintendent registrars and registrars of births and deaths within or between districts.

(3)The local scheme may in addition—

(a)make provision, where two or more officers are appointed to act for a single district or sub-district, for the distribution between them of the registration functions to be discharged within that district or sub-district, so, however, that any such distribution shall not render any such officer disqualified from acting at any time or at any place in that district or, as the case may be, sub-district; and

(b)confer on the [F4proper officer of the non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] such general powers of supervising the administration within the [F2non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] of the provisions of the Registration Acts as may be specified in the scheme.

Textual Amendments

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C1S. 13(2)(3) applied (8.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/3118, art. 2(1)

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14 Preparation, submission and approval of local schemes.E+W

(1)The council of a [F5non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] may from time to time prepare and submit to the Minister schemes for all or any of the purposes mentioned in the last foregoing section.

(2)In the case of any [F5non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] created after the commencement of this Act, the council of that [F5non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] shall prepare and submit to the Minister a local scheme within such period as the Minister may allow.

(3)Any scheme under this section shall fix the date or dates on which the scheme is to come into operation and may fix different dates for different provisions of the scheme or for different areas and the dates so fixed may be made dependent on the happening of specified events.

(4)No such scheme shall be of any effect unless and until it is approved by the Minister, and the Minister, after considering any representations with respect to the scheme which may be submitted to him by any officer affected, may approve the scheme with or without modifications.

(5)If—

(a)it appears to the Registrar General at any time that by reason of special circumstances an immediate adjustment is necessary in the division of any [F5non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] into districts and sub-districts; or

(b)a council required by subsection (2) of this section to submit a local scheme to the Minister fails to do so within the period allowed by the Minister,

the Registrar General may, after consultation with the council of the [F5non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] concerned, prepare a scheme for the purpose, and any scheme so prepared by him, if approved by the Minister, shall have effect as it it were a scheme submitted by the council and approved by the Minister in accordance with this section.

(6)Any scheme under this section may contain such incidental, consequential or supplemental provisions as may appear necessary or proper for the purposes of the scheme and may be varied or revoked by a subsequent scheme made in like manner as the original scheme:

Provided that a scheme prepared by the Registrar General and approved by the Minister under the last foregoing subsection may be varied or revoked either by a subsequent scheme so prepared and approved or by a subsequent scheme submitted by the council concerned and approved by the Minister in accordance with this section.

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2S. 14: functions of the Secretary of State transferred (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/273, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 9(a)

C3S. 14(4) applied (8.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/3118, art. 2(1)

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