The Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007

Amendments to registration fees for Scotland

2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6).

(2) In regulation 2(1), in the definition of “Internet search” after “Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership” insert “, to the accessible material under section 58(1) of the 2006 Act”.

(3) At the end of regulation 3(c) (fees payable to Registrar General), add–

• “;

  (d)

  column 1 of Part IV of Schedule 1 for the services described in column 2 of that Schedule (notification of death) shall be the amount specified in column 3 thereof”.

(4) After regulation 7(b) (remission of fees), insert–

“(ba) remission is likely to promote public knowledge of the registers in respect of which fees are payable under these Regulations and the fee remitted is for an Internet search made–

(i) by or on behalf of an association whose objects include genealogy;

(ii) at a school within the meaning of section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(1) or a public library managed by a library authority (within the meaning of the Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1887(2)); or

(iii) using a discount voucher which has previously been issued by the Registrar General;”.

(5) In Part I of Schedule 1 (fees payable to the Registrar General)–

(a) in entry 4 (general search – parochial and statutory registers), for columns 2 and 3 substitute columns 1 and 2 of Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations;

(b) in entry 8 (general search – Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership), for columns 2 and 3 substitute columns 1 and 2 of Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations;

(c) in entry 12 (general search – index of “accessible material”), for columns 2 and 3 substitute columns 1 and 2 of Part 3 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

• At the end of Schedule 1, add–

  “PART IV NOTIFICATION OF DEATH

  1	2	3
  Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965	Service	Fee payable under these Regulations
  		£
  Section 39B(3)	Weekly notice of all deaths registered in Scotland, as may be prescribed under section 39B(2) of the 1965 Act	2,000.00 per annum.”

(1)

1980 c..44; section 135 was amended by the Self-Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39), Schedule 10, paragraph 8(22)(d) and the Registered Establishments (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 40), section 2(2).

(2)

1887 c. 42 (50 and 51 Vict.); the section 2 definition of “library authority” was substituted by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 13, paragraph 5.

(3)

Section 39B was inserted by the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006, section 44(5).