Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953

31 Searches of indexes kept by superintendent registrars

(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 seven shillings and sixpence;

(b) for every particular search, the sum of one shilling and sixpence; and

(c) for every certified copy, the sum of three shillings and ninepence,