The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Regulations 1968

Disqualifications for appointment

5.  Notwithstanding the provisions of regulation 4, no person shall be qualified for appointment—

(a) to any registration office—

(i) if he has been declared bankrupt and has not subsequently obtained his discharge, or if he has made any composition or arrangement with his creditors and has not subsequently paid his debts in full or obtained a certificate of discharge;

(ii) if he has been dismissed from any office by the Registrar General and the Registrar General does not consent to the appointment;

(iii) if he is, or has been during the 12 months preceding the date on which the appointment is to take effect, a member of the council or of a committee of the council having duties in relation to the appointment of registration officers;

(iv) if he is an officer or servant, other than the clerk or deputy clerk, of a local authority employed by them in the performance of duties relating to their functions as a burial authority;

(v) if he holds any office as authorised person, secretary (for marriages) of a synagogue or registering officer of the Society of Friends;

(vi) if he is a minister of religion, a medical practitioner, a midwife, an undertaker or other person concerned in a burial or cremation business, a person engaged in any business concerned with life insurance, or a person engaged in any other calling which would conflict with or prevent the proper performance in person of the duties of the office for which he is a candidate;

(b) as superintendent registrar, if he holds office as a registrar or any deputy registration office;

(c) as registrar, if he holds office as a superintendent registrar or is a coroner.