Schedule 3, Part 2, paragraph 23

Section 564 of the Education Act 1996 (certificates of birth and registrars’ returns) is amended as follows. In subsection (1), for “the registrar having the custody of the register of births and deaths” substitute “the relevant registrar for the register”. In subsection (3)— for “A registrar” substitute “The relevant registrar for a register”; for “any register of births and deaths in his custody” substitute “the register”. In subsection (4)— in the definition of “the appropriate fee”, for “the registrar having custody of the register concerned” substitute “the relevant registrar for a register”; for the definition of “register of births and deaths” substitute— “register” means a register of births or register of deaths kept under that Act, at the end insert— “the relevant registrar” for a register means— in the case of a register in hard copy form (within the meaning of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953), the superintendent registrar having custody of the register; in the case of a register not in hard copy form (within the meaning of that Act)— the registrar of births and deaths for the sub-district for which the register is or has been kept, or the superintendent registrar for the district containing that sub-district.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04