The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Amendment) and Multilingual Standard Forms Regulations 2018

Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 1268

Registration Of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Etc., England And Wales

The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Amendment) and Multilingual Standard Forms Regulations 2018

Made

27th November 2018

Laid before Parliament

30th November 2018

Coming into force

16th February 2019

The Secretary of State is designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the issuance of multilingual standard forms by the Registrar General for England and Wales.

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 71A(3) and 74(3)(4) of the Marriage Act 1949(5), sections 38A(6) and 39A(7) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953(8), section 19B of the Registration Service Act 1953(9), section 2(2) and paragraph 1A of schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972, sections 34(10) and 36(4) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004(11) and section 9(12) and section 18 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013(13) makes the following Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 2018/1062.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

Section 71A was inserted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19).

(4)

Section 74(3) was inserted by paragraphs 1 and 15 of Schedule 4 to the Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22)

(5)

1949 c. 76.

(6)

Section 38A was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016; section 41(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (c. 20) provides that in that Act, “the Minister” means the Secretary of State.

(7)

Section 39A was inserted by paragraphs 1 and 17 of Schedule 6 to the Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24). Sub-sections (1), (2) and (5) have been amended by paragraphs 21 and 30 of Schedule 15 to, the Immigration Act 2016. Sub-section (5) has also been amended by section 98(1) and (4) of the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20).

(8)

1953 c. 20.

(9)

1953 c. 37. Section 19B was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016.

(10)

Section 34 was amended by paragraph 4 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016 and S.I. 2005/2000 and 2008/678.

(11)

2004 c. 33.

(12)

Section 9 was amended by section 99(1) and (3) of the Deregulation Act 2015 and by paragraph 5 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016.

(13)

2013 c. 30.