6 Restriction on power to charge fees for searches, etc. of certain registers in certain diocesan record offices. U.K.
In section 20(2) of the M1Parochial Registers and Records Measure 1978 (searches etc. of register books of baptisms or burials deposited in a diocesan record office), for paragraph (b) thereof there shall be substituted—
“(b)the authority under whose control that office is, not being a local authority, may charge such fees, if any, for allowing a search to be made in any such book or for providing a copy of an entry therein as is payable to an incumbent for the same service by virtue of any order for the time being in force made under the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1962”;
and at the end of subsection (5) of the said section 20 there shall be inserted the words “and nothing in subsections (2) and (3) above shall be taken as affecting the powers of local authorities under section 1 of the M2Local Government (Records) Act 1962 (power to promote adequate use of records)”.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of ss. 1, 4, 6, 10, 11(1) and 12 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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