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Births and Deaths Registration Act 1874

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SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULEFORMS

FORM CERTIFYING NAME GIVEN IN BAPTISM.

FORM CERTIFYING NAME GIVEN NOT IN BAPTISM.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Fees to Registrars and Superintendent Registrars

For registering a birth or death when required to do so at residence of person signing requisition, or at house where child born or person died (not being a public institution), to registrar one shilling, to be paid by the informant.

Upon the registration of a birth when the child is more than three months old, if it is not more than twelve months old, to superintendent registrar two shillings and sixpence, and to the registrar (unless the delay is occasioned by his failure to issue a requisition, or otherwise by his default) two shillings and sixpence, and if it is more than twelve months old, and is registered with the authority of the Registrar General, to superintendent registrar five shillings, and to registrar (unless the delay is occasioned by his failure to issue a requisition or otherwise by his default) five shillings, to be paid by the informant or declarant.

Upon the registration of a death with the authority of the Registrar General after the expiration of twelve months, to the superintendent registrar five shillings, and to the registrar (unless the delay is occasioned by his failure to issue a requisition or otherwise by his default) five shillings, to be paid by the informant or declarant.

For taking, attesting, and transmitting a declaration made by an informant respecting a birth in another sub-district, to the registrar attesting the declaration two shillings, to be paid by the informant.

For entering the baptismal or other name of child upon certificate produced after registry of birth, to superintendent registrar or registrar one shilling, to be paid by the person procuring the name to be

Correction of error of fact in register, to superintendent registrar or registrar two shillings and sixpence, to be paid by the person requiring the error to be

For every search, to the superintendent registrar, to be paid by the applicant for the search, if it is a general search, five shillings, if it is a particular search, one shilling.

For a certified copy of any entry given by the superintendent registrar, two shillings and sixpence to the superintendent registrar, to be paid by the applicant.

THIRD SCHEDULE

Births and Deaths Registration Acts

Session and Chapter.Title.
6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 86.An Act for registering births, deaths, and marriages in England.
7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 22.An Act to explain and amend the Acts passed in the last session of Parliament for marriage, and for registering births, deaths, and marriages in England.
21 & 22 Vict. c. 25.An Act to amend the Act concerning non-parochial registers, and the Acts for marriages, and for registering births, deaths, and marriages in England, and concerning vaccination.

FOURTH SCHEDULE

Particulars to be registered by Captain of a Ship concerning a Birth at Sea

  • Date of birth.

  • Name (if any) and sex of the child;

  • Name and surname, and rank, profession, or occupation of the father.

  • Name and surname, and maiden surname of mother.

  • Nationality and last place of abode of the father and mother.

Particulars to be registered by Captain of a Ship concerning a Death at Sea

  • Date of death.

  • Name and surname.

  • Sex.

  • Age.

  • Rank, profession, or occupation.

  • Nationality and last place of abode.

  • Cause of death.

FIFTH SCHEDULE

A description or citation of a portion of an Act is inclusive of. the words, section, or other part first or last mentioned, or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning or as forming the end of the portion comprised in the description or citation

Portions of Acts which have already been specifically repealed are in some instances included in the repeal in this schedule, in order to preclude henceforth the necessity of looking back to previous Acts.

Session and Chapter.Title or Abbreviated Title.Extent of Repeal.
6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 86.An Act for registering births, deaths, and marriages in England.Sections one, four, twelve, and sixteen, section eighteen from " as herein-" after provided at a reasonable price " to the end of the section, sections nineteen to twenty-eight, section thirty-six, section thirty-nine from " ac-" cording to the pro-" visions of" to the end of the section, so much of sections forty - one, forty-two, and forty-four as relates to registrars or registers of births and deaths, sections forty-five and fifty, and schedules (E.), (P.), and (G)
7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 22.An Act to explain and amend two Acts passed in the last session of Parliament, for-marriages, and for registering births, deaths, and marriages in England.Sections two, four, six, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-five, and thirty-one.
17 & 18 Vict. c. 80.An Act to provide for the better registration of births, deaths, and marriages in Scotland.Sections thirty and forty-three.
17 & 18 Vict. c. 104.The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.Sections two hundred and seventy-three and two hundred and eighty-two, so far as they relate to the entry of any birth or death.
18 & 19 Vict. c. 119.Passengers Act, 1855Section sixteen from " and " the said master shall " note in writing " down to " An Act for registering "births, deaths, and marriages in England," and section one hundred from " such emigration or customs officer " to the end of the section.
21 & 22 Vict. c. 25.An Act to amend the Act concerning non-parochial registers, and the Acts for marriages, and for registering births, deaths, and marriages in England, and concerning vaccination.The whole Act, except sections one to four.
26 & 27 Vict. c 11.An Act for the registration of births and deaths in Ireland.Sections thirty - nine and forty.

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