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42 Savings, etc

(1)Any registration effected, certificate issued, notice or information given, order, regulations or return made or other thing done under any enactment repealed by this Act shall, if in force at the commencement of this Act, continue in force, and have effect as if effected, issued, given, made or done under the corresponding provision of this Act.

F1(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4)Any document referring to an enactment repealed by this Act shall unless the contrary intention appears to be construed as referring to the corresponding provision of this Act.

(5)Nothing in this Act shall affect any provision of the M1Population (Statistics) Act 1938, requiring particulars to be furnished for the purposes of that Act.

(6)Nothing in this Act shall affect the registration of baptisms or burials, or the right of any officiating minister to receive any fees now usually paid for the performance or registration of any baptism or burial.

(7)Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of [F2sections 16(1) and 17(2)(a) of the M2Interpretation Act 1978] (which [F2relate] to the effect of repeals).

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 42(2)(3) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1, Pt. VIII

F2Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 25(2)

Marginal Citations

M11938 c. 12.

M21978 c. 30.

43 Repeals and consequential amendments

(1)The enactments specified in the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments respectively specified in that Schedule.

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 43(2), Sch. 2 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI

F2S. 43(3) repealed by Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37), Sch. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of s. 43(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

44 Short title, extent and commencement

(1)This Act may be cited as the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953.

(2)This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.

(3)ThisAct shall come into force on the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty–three.

Section 43.

FIRST SCHEDULE Consequential Amendments of other Enactments

1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Sch. 1 para. 1 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIX

B. The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo.5. c.88)

2In subsection (1) of section one, for the reference to a certificate of the registrar given in pursuance of that Act there shall be substituted a reference to a certificate of the registrar given under subsection (2) or (3) of section eleven or under section twenty–four of this Act.

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of Sch. 1 paras. 2, 3, 4 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

3In section five, for the reference to a certificate given by the registrar under the provisions of that Act relating to still–births, there shall be substituted a reference to a certificate given by the registrar under subsectin (2) or (3) of section eleven of this Act.

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of Sch. 1 paras. 2, 3, 4 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

The Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5. c.60)

F14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Sch. 1 para. 4 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1, Pt. VIII