The Births, Deaths and Marriages (Records and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Amendments to the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016

3.—(1) The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2, after the definition of “the 1953 Act” insert—

““online view service” means a service provided via the website for the General Register Office which allows a person to—

(a)

search via that website for an entry in the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries, and

(b)

if the search locates the entry, submit a request via that website to view a record of information contained in that entry in electronic format;”.

(3) In Schedule 1 (fees payable), in the table—

(a) for row 15 substitute—

“15	Marriage Act 1949 section 64(2)	(a) Standard service for certified copy of an entry from the register kept by the superintendent registrar	£11.00	The superintendent registrar
		(b) Priority service for certified copy of an entry from the register kept by the superintendent registrar	£35.00	The superintendent registrar”

(b) in row 51—

(i) in column 2 (services or matters for which fee is payable)—

(aa) for “portable document” (in each place it appears) substitute “electronic”;

(bb) for “conversion of civil partnerships register” (in each place it appears) substitute “conversion register”;

(cc) after (a)(ii) insert—

“(iii) a copy of a record, through the online view service, of the information contained in the Registrar General’s certified copies of entries in the birth register, the death register and the marriage register.”;

(ii) in column 3 (amount of fee), as a corresponding entry to (a)(iii) in column 2 (services or matters for which fee is payable), insert “£2.50”.

(iii) in column 4 (person to whom fee is payable), as a corresponding entry to (a)(iii) in column 2 (services or matters for which fee is payable), insert “The Registrar General”.

(1)

S.I. 2016/911, amended by S.I. 2017/947, 2018/1268.