(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st June 2007.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968.
Specified date: 1 June 2007: see para (1) above.
(1) The principal Regulations are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 5(a)(vi), for “to exercise the functions of” substitute “as”.
(3) In regulation 5(b), omit “or any deputy registration office except the office of deputy superintendent registrar”.
(4) Regulation 8 is revoked.
(5) After regulation 9(2), insert—
“(3) A person who holds jointly the offices of superintendent registrar and deputy registrar shall not perform any of the duties of the superintendent registrar in relation to any duties which he performs as deputy registrar.”.
Specified date: 1 June 2007: see reg 1(1).
Given under my hand on 1st May 2007
Karen Dunnell
Registrar General
I approve
John Healey
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
By authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
8th May 2007
These regulations amend the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968.
The 1968 Regulations as now amended will allow a person carrying out the functions of the local authority's proper officer for registration matters to be appointed as a superintendent registrar, whilst continuing the bar on the proper officer himself being so appointed. They will also allow a superintendent registrar to be appointed as a deputy registrar. But a superintendent registrar appointed in that way will not be able to supervise his own functions as a deputy registrar.
The regulations also remove the obligation on a superintendent registrar to compile and circulate information about registration staff, their addresses and hours of business.
