2002 No. 3122

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC

The Service Departments Registers (Amendment) Order 2002

Made

Coming into force

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of December 2002

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 1,2,3,5 and 6 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 19571 is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to Order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:

Citation, commencement, interpretation1

1

This Order may be cited as the Service Departments (Amendment) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 18th December 2002.

2

In this Order “the 1959 Order” means the Service Departments Registers Order 19592.

Amendment of the 1959 Order2

Article 5(1) of the 1959 Order shall be amended as follows:

1

for the words “subsection (3) of section three” shall be substituted “section 3(3) or section 3A”; and

2

for the words “that subsection” shall be substituted “section 3(3) or section 3A”.

A.K. GallowayClerk of the Privy Council

(This note is not part of the Order)

Under the Deregulation (Correction of Birth and Death Entries in Registers or Other Records) Order 2002 (S.I.2002/1419), section 3A (alternative procedure for certain corrections) was inserted in the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957 (the 1957 Act). The 1957 Act empowers Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to provide for the keeping of records of births, deaths and marriages relating to HM Armed Forces and associated civilians. The Service Departments Registers Order 1959 (the 1959 Order) sets out the relevant provisions. Article 5 of the 1959 Order deals with the correction of errors. By this Order, article 5(1) of the 1959 Order has been amended to include reference to section 3A of the 1957 Act.