Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965
PART IGeneral Organisation of Registration Service
Central Organisation
1The Registrar General
2Registrar General's staff
3General Register Office
4Salaries, receipts and expenses
Local Organisation
5Registration districts and registration authorities
6Alteration of registration districts
7Senior and district registrars and other staff
8Registration offices
9Area repositories
10Delivery up of books etc. on ceasing to hold office
11General provision as to fees
12Fees to be accounted for
PART IIRegistration of Births
13Particulars of births to be registered
14Duty to give information of particulars of birth
15Duty to give information concerning finding of infant children
16Registrar's power to require information concerning birth to be given
17Registration after expiration of three months from date of birth or finding
18Births of illegitimate children
19Free abbreviated certificate of birth
20Re-registration in certain cases
21Still-births
PART IIIRegistration of Deaths
22Particulars of deaths to be registered
23Duty to give information of particulars of death
24Certificate of cause of death
25Registrar's power to require information concerning death to be given
26Registration after expiration of three months from date of death or finding of body
27Free certificate of registration of death
28Intimation of certain deaths by registrar to Procurator-Fiscal and vice-versa
PART IVRegistration of Marriages
29Marriage Schedule
30Issue and signature of Marriage Schedule and registration of marriage
31Registrar's power to require delivery of Marriage Schedule
PART VGeneral
Registers
32Provision of registers etc. by Registrar General
33Duplicate and copy registers
34Examination of registers by district examiners
35Reproduction of registers
36Replacement of lost registers etc.
Searches and Extracts, etc.
37Search of indexes kept by registrars
38Search of indexes kept by Registrar General
39Production of extracts by photography etc.
40Abbreviated certificates of birth
41Authentication of extracts etc. and their admissibility as evidence
Corrections and Changes of Name or Surname
42Correction of errors in registers
43Recording of baptismal name or change of name or surname
44Register of Corrections Etc
Parochial Registers
45Correction of entries in parochial registers
46Parochial registers to be transmitted to Registrar General
47Search of parochial registers, etc., and provision of extracts therefrom
Miscellaneous
48Decrees of court altering status
49Signing by mark by persons unable to write
50Events occurring in institutions
51Returns to be made by registrar
52Sending of documents by post
53Offences
54Regulations
55Expenses
56Interpretation
57Savings etc.
58Consequential amendments and repeals
59Short title, extent and commencement
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Consequential Amendments of other Enactments
GENERAL MODIFICATION
1Any reference in any other enactment to a registrar in...
SPECIFIC MODIFICATIONS
The Marriage Notice (Scotland) Act 187841 & 42 Vict. c. 43
2For section 1 there shall be substituted the following section:—...
The Marriage (Scotland) Act 19392 & 3 Geo. 6 c. 34
3In section 1(6), and in column 1 of the First...
4In section 7, for the words from " expressions '...
The Family Allowances Act 19458 & 9 Geo. 6 c. 41
5In section 26(3), for the words from " Acts, 1854...
The National Insurance Act 19469 & 10 Geo. 6 c. 67
6In section 79(b), for the word " six " and...
The Adoption Act 19587 & 8 Eliz. 2 c. 5
7In section 22, for any reference to the General Registry...
8In section 23(3) after the words " 1854 to 1938...
9In section 27, for the words " section two of...
The Adoption Act 19641964 c. 57
10In section 3(4), for the words " section 2 of...
SCHEDULE 2Repeals

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Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965

1965 CHAPTER 49

An Act to make new provision as respects the registration of births, deaths and marriages in Scotland, and as respects the recording of changes of name or surname there, and for purposes connected therewith.

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—