The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026

Statutory Instruments

2026 No. 233

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS & MARRIAGES, ETC., ENGLAND AND WALES

CIVIL PARTNERSHIP, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026

Made

5th March 2026

Laid before Parliament

9th March 2026

Coming into force

6th April 2026

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5 of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855(1), section 71A of the Marriage Act 1949(2), section 34 and 258(3) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004(3), and section 9(4)(f) and 18(4) of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013(4).

Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026 and come into force on 6th April 2026.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

(3) In these Regulations, the “Fees Regulations” means the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016(5).

Amendment of the Fees Regulations

3.  The Fees Regulations are amended in accordance with regulation 4 and 5.

4.  In regulation 3A (transmission of part of fees to Registrar General), in paragraph (2)(c), for “£44.00”, substitute “£48.00”.

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Fees Regulations

5.  The Schedule (Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Fees Regulations) has effect.

Transitional provision

6.—(1) In this regulation—

“applicable fee” means the fee payable in respect of a relevant service;

“relevant service” means a service for which the fee that is payable is increased in accordance with regulation 5 and the Schedule.

(2) Where a person applies for, or requests, a relevant service before 6th April 2026, the applicable fee is that which was payable immediately before 6th April 2026.

(3) The amendment made by regulation 4 does not apply where the relevant fee paid was that within the meaning of regulation 3A specified immediately before 6th April 2026.

Mike Tapp

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Home Office

5th March 2026

Regulation 5

Schedule Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Fees Regulations

1.—(1) Column 3 of the table in Schedule 1 to the Fees Regulations (fees payable) is amended as follows.

(2) In row 1, for “£32.00”, substitute “£35.50”.

(3) In row 2—

(a) for “£42.00”, substitute “£46.50”;

(b) for “£57.00”, substitute “£63.00”.

(4) In row 3—

(a) for “£57.00”, substitute “£63.00”;

(b) for “£82.00”, substitute “£90.50”.

(5) In row 4, for “£66.00”, substitute “£73.00”.

(6) In row 5—

(a) for “£71.00”, substitute “£78.50”;

(b) for “£136.00”, substitute “£150.00”.

(7) In row 6—

(a) for “£71.00”, substitute “”£78.50”;

(b) for “£136.00”, substitute “£150.00”.

(8) In row 7, for “£136.00”, substitute “£150.00”.

(9) In row 8, for “£104.00”, substitute “£114.50”.

(10) In row 9, for “£56.00”, substitute “£62.00”.

(11) In row 10—

(a) for “£98.00”, substitute “£108.00”;

(b) for “£106.00”, substitute “£117.00”.

(12) In row 11—

(a) for “£101.00”, substitute “”£111.50”;

(b) for “£113.00”, substitute “£124.50”.

(13) In row 23, for “£4.00”, substitute “£4.50”.

(14) In row 24, for “£18.00”, substitute “£20.00”.

(15) In row 25, for “£2.50”, in both places it occurs, substitute “£3.00”.

(16) In row 26, for “£2.50”, substitute “£3.00”.

(17) In row 27, for “£98.00”, substitute “£108.00”.

(18) In row 28, for “£106.00”, substitute “£117.00”.

(19) In row 29, for “£56.00”, substitute “£62.00”.

(20) In row 30—

(a) for “£42.00”, substitute “46.50”;

(b) for “£57.00”, substitute “£63.00”.

(21) In row 31, for “£57.00”, substitute “£63.00”.

(22) In row 32, for “£82.00”, substitute “£90.50”.

(23) In row 33, for “£4.00”, substitute “£4.50”.

(24) In row 34, for “£66.00”, substitute “£73.00”.

(25) In row 35, for “£18.00”, substitute “£20.00”.

(26) In row 38, for “£38.50”, substitute “£46.50”.

(27) In row 40, for “£50.00”, substitute “£55.00”.

(28) In row 41, for “£109.00”, substitute “£120.00”.

(29) In row 42, for “£129.00”, substitute “£142.00”.

(30) In row 43, for “£18.00”, substitute “£20.00”.

(31) In row 44, for “£30.00”, substitute “£33.00”.

(32) In row 45—

(a) for “£30.00”, substitute “£33.00”;

(b) for “£101.00”, substitute “£111.50”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016 (“the Fees Regulations”), which set fees for applications and services in relation to the registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships in England and Wales. Regulations 4 and 5 increase the amounts of fees payable in order to move towards cost recovery in line with government policy in relation to public resources. Regulation 6 makes transitional provisions so that the fees in force immediately before 6th April 2026 continue to apply where an application or request for a service is made before that date, or where the service arises from action taken before that date. Where a fee has already been paid at the amount in force before 6th April 2026, the amended fee does not apply.

(1)

1855 c. 81. Section 5 was substituted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19).

(2)

1949 c. 76. Section 71A was inserted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016.

(3)

2004 c. 33. Section 34 was amended by paragraph 14(b) of Schedule 2 to the Transfer of Functions (Registration) Order 2008, S.I. 2008/678, and Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016.

(4)

2013 c. 30. Section 9 was amended by section 99(3) of the Deregulation Act 2015 and by paragraph 5 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016.

(5)

S.I. 2016/911; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2024/598. There are other amending instruments but none is relevant.