Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 3151 (S.175)

The Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

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1994 No. 3151 (S.175)

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.

The Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

The Registrar General, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 40(2), 43(4) and (5), 54(1)(b) and 56 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965^[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and with the approval of the Secretary of State, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st January 1995.

Interpretation
    2.    In these Regulations, "the principal regulations" means the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1965^[2].

Amendment of the principal regulations
    3.    For regulation 16 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following regulation:—
    "16.    The abbreviated certificate of birth based on information contained in the Adopted Children Register or the Parental Order Register and issued under section 40(2) of the Act shall be in the form or as nearly as may be in the form set out in Schedule 16 to these regulations." .

    4.    For the form set out in Schedule 16 to the principal regulations^[3], there shall be substituted the form set out in Schedule 1 to these regulations.

    5.    For the form set out in Schedule 23 to the principal regulations there shall be substituted the form set out in Schedule 2 to these regulations.

    6.    For the form set out in Schedule 24 to the principal regulations^[4] there shall be substituted the form set out in Schedule 3 to these regulations.

Revocation
    7.    Regulation 7 of and Schedule 5 to the Registration of Births, Still-births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1971^[5] are hereby revoked.

James Meldrum

Registrar General for Scotland
New Register House, Edinburgh

2nd December 1994
Approved by the Secretary of State

Fraser of Carmyllie

Minister of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh

5th December 1994

[1] 1965 c. 49; in section 40(2), the references to "the Adopted Children Register maintained under section 22(1) of the Adoption Act 1958" and to "adoption" are to be read, in relation to parental orders and applications for such orders, in accordance with paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2 to the Parental Orders (Human Fertilisation and Embryology) (Scotland) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2804); section 43(5) was amended by Schedule 2 to the Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 50); section 56 contains a definition of "prescribed" relevant to the exercise of statutory powers under which these Regulations are made. back

[2] S.I. 1965/1839; the relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1971/1158. back

[3] Schedule 16 was substituted by regulation 7 of S.I. 1971/1158. back

[4] Schedule 24 was amended by Part II of Schedule 1 to, the Age of Majority (Scotland) Act 1969 (c. 39). back

[5] S.I. 1971/1158. back

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