Population (Statistics) Act 1938

3 Power to make regulations

(1) The power of the Minister of Health, and of the Registrar-General with the approbation of the Minister of Health, under the Registration Acts to make regulations with respect to the performance by registration officers of their functions under those Acts shall include power to make regulations requiring registration officers to perform such functions in connection with the furnishing, collection and collation of particulars directed to be furnished by this Act as may be prescribed, and with respect to the performance by them of those functions.

Functions which registration officers are required to perform by virtue of any such regulations shall be deemed to be functions under the Registration Acts.

(2) In section twenty-nine of the [6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 86.] Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (which section, as amended by section thirty-one of the [37 & 38 Vict. c. 88.] Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874, and by section seven of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, determines certain fees payable to registration officers in respect of the registration of births, still-births, and deaths) for the words " one shilling " there shall be substituted the words " one shilling and five pence. "

Subsection (1) of section eight of the [16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 48.] Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, shall cease to have effect.