Part 2Registration services

Other provisions about information held by Registrar General

56Provision of registration information to public bodies and office-holders

1

The Registrar General may provide any information contained in a register mentioned in subsection (2) to any public body or office-holder (in Scotland, in any other part of the United Kingdom or in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom).

2

Those registers are—

a

a register of births, still-births, deaths or marriages transmitted to the Registrar General under the 1965 Act or any enactment repealed by that Act;

b

a Register of Corrections Etc. or a civil partnership register transmitted to the Registrar General under the 1965 Act;

c

the Register of Divorces;

d

the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership.

3

The Registrar General may charge for the provision of information under this section.