1. The Service Departments Registers Order 1959(1) shall be amended as follows:
(1) In article 1(b) there shall be inserted after the word “deaths” the words “and births”;
(2) For article 2(1)(a) there shall be substituted “(a) any person authorised in that behalf by the Defence Council”;
(3) In article 2(1)(b) for the words “Admiralty, the Army Council, the Air Council or the Minister of Aviation.” there shall be substituted the words “Defence Council.”
(4) In article 4(2) for the words “Admiralty, Army Council, Air Council or Minister of Aviation, as may be appropriate,” there shall be substituted the words “Defence Council,”
(5) In article 5(3) the word “column” shall be omitted;
(6) For Part II of the Schedule there shall be substituted the words contained in the Schedule to this Order.
S.I. 1959/406, amended by S.I. 1963/1624 and by section 1(3) of the Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15).