Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (c. 20)

Part III E+W General

Searches and Certificates E+W

31 Searches of indexes kept by superintendent registrars. E+W

(1) Every superintendent registrar shall cause indexes of the registers of live–births and registers of deaths in his register office to be made and to be kept with the other records of that office, and the Registrar General shall supply to every superintendent registrar suitable forms for the making of such indexes.

(2) Any person shall be entitled at any time when the register office is required to be open for the transaction of public business to search the said indexes, and to have a certified copy of any entry in the said registers under the hand of the superintendent registrar, on payment by that person to the superintendent registrar of the following fees respectively, that is to say—

(a) for every general search, the sum of [F1 £18.00];

(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(c) for every certified copy, the sum of [F3 £7.00].

Textual Amendments

F1 Fee in s. 31(2)(a) made payable (1.4.2003) by virtue of S.I. 2002/3076, art. 2, Sch.

F2 S. 31(2)(b) repealed by S.I. 1968/1242, Sch. 2

F3 Fee in s. 31(2)(c) substituted (1.4.2003) by S.I. 2002/3076, art. 2, Sch.