The Registration Services (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007

Amendment of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1965

2.—(1) The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1965(1) are amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) At the end of regulation 2(1), add

• “; and

• “written authority” includes authority sent as an electronic document which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.”.

(3) In regulation 3 (re-registration of births)–

(a) in paragraph (1), after “except”, insert “under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Re-registration (Scotland) Regulations 2007(2) or”; and

(b) in paragraph (2), omit “so authorised”.

(4) For regulation 6(2) substitute–

“(2) The registrar shall enter in the register–

(a) the particulars included in the written authority of the Registrar General; or

(b) the particulars required as a consequence of re-registration under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Re-registration (Scotland) Regulations 2007.

(3) The registrar shall append to the signature of the informant the qualification of the informant and the date of re-registration and the registrar shall sign the entry.”.

(5) In regulations 9, 10, 11 and 12, for “abbreviated certificate” each time it occurs, substitute “abbreviated extract”.

(6) In regulation 12, omit “certificate or”.

(1)

S.I. 1965/1838, amended by 1984/267.

(2)

S.S.I. 2007/54.