Non-Parochial Registers Act 1840

20 Fleet and May Fair Registers, &c.U.K.

The several registers and records of baptisms and marriages performed at the Fleet and King’s Bench prisons, at May Fair, and at the Mint in Southwark, and elsewhere, which were deposited in the registry of the bishop of London in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, by the authority of one of his late Majesty’s principal secretaries of state, shall be transferred from the said registry to the custody of the registrar general, who is hereby directed to receive the same for safe custody: Provided nevertheless that none of the provisions herein-before contained respecting the registers and records made receivable in evidence by virtue of this Act shall extend to the registers and records so deposited in the registry of the bishop of London in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one as aforesaid.