Registration Service Act 1953

Registrar General, etc. E+W

1 Registrar General. E+W

F1 (1) Her Majesty may from time to time under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom appoint a Registrar General for England and Wales, and any person so appointed shall exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred or imposed by or under any enactment on the Registrar General, whether described by that title alone or with any additional description, and shall hold office during Her Majesty’s pleasure.

[F2 (2) The Registrar General is a corporation sole by the name of the Registrar General for England and Wales.

(3) The Registrar General may do anything (including acquire or dispose of any property or rights) which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of any of his functions.

(4) The Registrar General discharges his functions on behalf of the Crown.

(5) Service as Registrar General is not service in the civil service of the Crown; but the Registrar General is a Crown servant for the purposes of the Official Secrets Act 1989.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 1 renumbered as s. 1(1) (1.4.2008) by Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 c. 18, ss. 68(1)(a), 74(1), 2008 S.I. 839, art. 2

F2 S. 1(2)-(5) inserted (1.4.2008) by Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c. 18), ss. 68(1)(b), 74(1); S.I. 2008/839, art. 2

2 General Register Office. E+W

The offices of the Registrar General shall be known as the General Register Office and any place in which any registers or records in the custody of the Registrar General by virtue of this or any other Act are deposited by direction of the Registrar General with the approval of the Treasury shall, so long as those registers or records are there deposited, be deemed to be part of the General Register Office.

3 Registrar General’s staff, etc. E+W

(1) Subject to the consent of [F3 the Minister for the Civil Service] as to number, the Registrar General may appoint such officers and servants for the purposes of his functions as he may determine.

(2) Any act or thing required by or under any enactment to be done by, to or before the Registrar General may be done by, to or before any officer or servant of the Registrar General authorised generally or specially in that behalf in writing by the Registrar General.

Textual Amendments

F3 Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1968/1656, arts. 2(1)(a), 3(2)

4 Salaries, receipts and expenses. E+W

(1) There shall be paid to the Registrar General and to the officers and servants appointed by the Registrar General such salaries or remuneration as [F4 the Minister for the Civil Service] may from time to time determine.

(2) Every sum received under the Registration Acts by or on behalf of the Registrar General otherwise than under the foregoing subsection shall be accounted for by the Registrar General and paid by him, at such times as the Treasury may from time to time direct, into the Exchequer.

(3) The salary of the Registrar General and his expenses under the Registration Acts and in respect of the General Register Office shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.

Textual Amendments

F4 Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1968/1656, arts. 2(1)(a), 3(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 4(2) extended by S.I. 1982/1526, art. 3