The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968

PART XIV ACCOUNTING

Duties which may be performed without pre-payment of fee

85.—(1) An officer, if authorised by the clerk in a particular case, may comply with an application made to him for any purpose for which a fee is payable under any enactment notwithstanding that the fee or, in the case of a non-salaried officer, so much of the fee as is payable by him to the council, has not been paid to him and, if so directed by the clerk in the particular case, he shall not refuse to comply with such an application on the ground that the fee or, in the case of a non-salaried officer, so much of the fee as is payable by him to the council has not been paid to him.

(2) The clerk may delegate his duties under this regulation, so far as they relate to applications made to a registrar, to the superintendent registrar within whose district that registrar has been appointed to act.

Recovery of fees, etc

86.—(1) Save as provided in regulation 85, an officer shall refuse to comply with an application voluntarily made to him until there shall have been paid to him the fee chargeable or, if he is a non-salaried officer, so much of the fee as is payable by him to the council.

(2) In any case where, in pursuance of regulation 85 an officer complies with an application without prior payment of the fee or, as the case may be, so much of the fee as is payable by him to the council, he shall report the circumstances to the council within 7 days thereafter and shall, on receiving from the council an indemnity in respect of all costs and expenses which he may incur, take such steps as the council may require to recover the fee or, as the case may be, so much of the fee as is payable by him to them.

Rendering of accounts

87.—(1) A principal officer shall within 14 days after the expiration of each period of 3 months ending on the last day of March, June, September and December respectively render to the Registrar General on a form provided by him for the purpose an account of all fees or parts of fees for which the officer is required under any enactment to account to the Registrar General in respect of that period.

(2) A principal officer shall also submit any special account which the Registrar General may require with respect to the said fees.