Births and Deaths Registration Act 1874

33 Providing of register offices and fireproof repositories

The guardians of any union acting under a Local Act shall be subject to the same obligation of providing and upholding register offices as guardians of a union acting under the [4 & 5 W. 4. c. 76.] Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, are subject to under section nine of the principal Act.

Every register office of a district formed before or after the commencement of this Act shall be provided by the guardians, at the expense of their common fund, with a suitable fireproof repository or iron boxes for the safe custody of the registers, made according to the plan and placed in the office approved by the Registrar

Until a register office, as approved by the. Registrar General, is provided by the guardians in any superintendent registrar's district, the superintendent registrar shall appropriate some fit room, to be approved by the Registrar General, as a temporary register office. Such guardians shall pay a reasonable rent for the said room out of their common fund to the superintendent registrar.