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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c.49)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965

1965 CHAPTER 49

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    General Organisation of Registration Service

    1. Central Organisation

      1. 1. The Registrar General

      2. 2. Registrar General’s staff

      3. 3. General Register Office

      4. 4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. Local Organisation

      1. 5. Registration districts and registration authorities

      2. 6. Alteration of registration districts

      3. 7. Senior and district registrars and other staff

      4. 8. Registration offices

      5. 9. Area repositories

      6. 10. Delivery up of books etc. on ceasing to hold office

      7. 11. General provision as to fees

      8. 12. Fees to be accounted for

  2. Part II

    Registration of Births

    1. 13. Particulars of births to be registered

    2. 14. Duty to give information of particulars of birth

    3. 15. Duty to give information concerning finding of infant children

    4. 16. Registrar’s power to require information concerning birth to be given

    5. 17. Registration after expiration of three months from date of birth or finding

    6. 18. Births of children born out of wedlock

    7. 18A. Decrees of parentage and non-parentage

    8. 19. Free abbreviated certificate of birth

    9. 20. Re-registration in certain cases

    10. 21. Still-births

  3. Part III

    Registration of Deaths

    1. 22. Particulars of deaths to be registered

    2. 23. Duty to give information of particulars of death

    3. 24. Certificate of cause of death

    4. 25. Registrar’s power to require information concerning death to be given

    5. 26. Registration after expiration of three months from date of death or finding of body

    6. 27. Free certificate of registration of death

    7. 28. Intimation of certain deaths by registrar to Procurator-Fiscal and vice-versa

  4. Part IIIA

    1. 28A.Registration of divorces and declarators of nullity of marriage

    2. 28B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  5. Part IV

    1. 29—31... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  6. Part V

    General

    1. Registers

      1. 32. Provision of registers etc. by Registrar General

      2. 33. Duplicate and copy registers

      3. 34. Examination of registers by district examiners

      4. 35. Reproduction of registers

      5. 36. Replacement of lost registers etc

    2. Searches and Extracts, etc

      1. 37. Search of indexes kept by registrars

      2. 38. Search of indexes kept by Registrar General

      3. 39. Production of extracts by photography etc

      4. 40. Abbreviated certificates of birth

      5. 41. Authentication of extracts etc. and their admissibility as evidence

    3. Corrections and Changes of Name or Surname

      1. 42. Correction of errors in registers

      2. 43. Recording of baptismal name or change of name or surname

      3. 44. Register of Corrections Etc

    4. Parochial Registers

      1. 45. Correction of entries in parochial registers

      2. 46. Parochial registers to be transmitted to Registrar General

      3. 47. Search of parochial registers etc., and provision of extracts therefrom

    5. Miscellaneous

      1. 48. Decrees of court altering status

      2. 49. Signing by mark by persons unable to write

      3. 50. Events occurring in institutions

      4. 51. Returns to be made by registrar

      5. 52. Sending of documents by post

      6. 53. Offences

      7. 54. Regulations

      8. 55. Expenses

      9. 56. Interpretation

      10. 57. Savings etc

      11. 58. Consequential amendments and repeals

      12. 59. Short title, extent and commence-ment

  7. SCHEDULE 1

    Consequential Amendments of other Enactments

  8. SCHEDULE 2

An Act to make new provision as respects the registration of births, deaths and marriages in Scotland, and as respects the recording of changes of name or surname there, and for purposes connected therewith.

[5th August 1965]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act extended by Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 28), ss. 45(8), 67(2)

C2Power to extend Act conferred by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 41(4)(5)

C3Act extended with modifications by S.I. 1982/1526, art. 4(1)

Commencement Information

I1Act wholly in force on 01.01.1966 see s. 59(3).

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