2005 No. 1997
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES, ETC., ENGLAND AND WALES

The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2005

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 19681 and now vested in him2 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 5th December.

(2)

In this Order—

(a)

“the principal Order” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 20023; and

(b)

a reference to a numbered column is to the column in the Schedule to the principal Order bearing that number.

Amendment of the principal Order2.

In the Schedule to the principal Order the entries made in respect of the Marriage Act 1949 are amended as follows—

(a)

in the entry relating to section 27(7) (attendance of superintendent registrar other than at his office etc), in column (4), for “£40.00” substitute “£47.00”;

(b)

in the entry relating to section 51(1) (fee of registrar for attending marriage), in column (4), for “£34.00” and “£40.00” substitute respectively “£40.00” and “£47.00”; and

(c)

in the entry relating to section 51(2) (fee of superintendent registrar attending marriage etc), in column (4), for “£40.00” substitute “£47.00”.

Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer

John Healey
Financial Secretary to the Treasury HM Treasury
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 2002 by increasing some of the fees payable in respect of a civil marriage.

The fees increased are those—

(a)

for the attendance of a superintendent registrar away from his office, to take a notice marriage from a housebound or detained person (from £40 to £47),

(b)

for the attendance of a registrar of marriages at a marriage in a register office (from £34 to £40), and

(c)

for the attendance of a superintendent registrar and a registrar of marriages at a marriage at the residence of a house-bound or detained person (from £40 to £47 each).

This Order does not impose a charge on business.