Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978

[F1 9A Closure of old register books. E

(1) Any register book to which this section for the time being applies shall be closed and no further entries shall be made therein.

(2) This section applies to any register book wherein the earliest entry has (at any time, whether at the coming into force of this section or subsequently) been in existence for one hundred and fifty years or more, other than a register book of marriages wherein the earliest entry was made on or after 1st July 1837.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 9A inserted (1.1.1993) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 1992 (No. 1), s. 4(1), Sch. 1 para.6;Instrument dated 7.9.1992 made by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.