The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Amendment) and Multilingual Standard Forms Regulations 2018

Insertion of regulations 3B to 3F E+W

5.  After regulation 3A(1) insert—

“3B    Offline application fee

(1) Where an application is made to the Registrar General for a relevant service and the application is made by way of offline application, an additional non-refundable fee of £4.00 is payable to the Registrar General.

(2) The fee in paragraph (1) is not payable if, at the time of making the application, the online application service is not available.

(3) In this regulation—

“offline application” means an application for a service that is not made via the public website known as www.gov.uk;

“online application” means an application for a service that is made via the public website known as www.gov.uk.

“relevant service” means a service as set out in rows 16, 18, 22, 36, 39, 47, 49 and 50 of the table in Schedule 1(2).

3C    Premium postal service fee

(1) Where an application is made to the Registrar General for a copy or other record of any information held by the Registrar General using the priority service the Registrar General may, on request and upon payment of the applicable fee, provide the document by premium postal service and the applicable fee is —

(a) On a working day a fee of £7.25

(b) On a Saturday a fee of £19.25

(c) Overseas a fee of £12.00

(2) The fee for the premium postal service is—

(a) payable to the Registrar General;

(b) payable in addition to any other fee payable for provision of that document.

(3) In this regulation “premium postal service” means a postal service for which the fee payable to the Registrar General is in addition to the fee payable to the Registrar General for delivery of the same documents by first class post.

3D    General index search fee (no reference provided)

(1) Where an application is made to the Registrar General for a certified copy and the relevant information does not contain the reference from the relevant index kept by the Registrar General, an additional non-refundable fee of £3.00 is payable to the Registrar General to undertake the search of the index on the applicant’s behalf.

(2) The fee in regulation 3D(1) is not payable where the relevant index kept by the Registrar General is not available to the public for searching.

(b) “relevant index” means—

(i) any index kept by the Registrar General in relation to any register of births, deaths, marriages or civil partnerships; or

(ii) an index kept by the Registrar General pursuant to Regulation 23 of the Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014(3).

3E    Retained fee

(1) A fee of £3.50 is retained by the Registrar General where an application is made to the Registrar General for a certified copy and the corresponding entry cannot be located from the relevant information provided.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 5 revoked (1.1.2024) by virtue of The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Revocation and Sunset Disapplication) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1143), reg. 2(3), Sch. 2 Pt. 1

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 5 in force at 16.2.2019, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

Regulation 3A was inserted by S.I. 2017/947.

(2)

Row 22 was amended by (S.I. 2017/947.

(3)

S.I. 2014/3181. Regulation 23 was amended by S.I. 2016/911.