The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1993

This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct defects in SI 1992/2982 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 377

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC.

ENGLAND AND WALES

The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1993

Made

25th February 1993

Laid before Parliament

4th March 1993

Coming into force

1st April 1993

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 5(1) and (2) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968(1)and now vested in her(2)and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order:–

“the principal Order” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 1992(3).

Amendment of principal Order

3.—(1) The third and sixth entries respectively in the Schedule to the principal Order (fees payable) relating to section 5 of the Young Persons (Employment) Act 1938(4)and to section 35(1) of the Shops Act 1950(5)are omitted.

(2) For the final entry in columns 1 and 2 of the Schedule to the principal Order (fees payable) relating to section 160(2) of the Social Security Act 1975) there is substituted the following:–

“1992	Social Security (Administration) Act 1992
c.5	Section 124(3)”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Tom Sackville

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health,

Department of Health

25th February 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is made to correct defects in the Schedule to the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (No. 2) Order 1992 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Order. The defects were:

(a) the inclusion of references to section 5 of the Young Persons (Employment) Act 1938 and to section 35(1) of the Shops Act 1950 which provisions were repealed from 16th January 1990 by section 29(4) of, and Schedule 7 to, the Employment Act 1989 and

(b) the inclusion of a reference to section 160(2) of the Social Security Act 1975 which provision was repealed from 1 July 1992 by section 3 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992. It was replaced by section 124(3) of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1992. The fees payable under that section are increased by this Order from 1st April 1993.

(1)

1968 c. 14; paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 was amended by paragraph 21 of Schedule 9 to the Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46) and by paragraph 33 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18). By virtue of section 2(2) of the Marriage Act 1983 (c. 32) the reference to the Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76) in the said Schedule 3 includes a reference to that Act as amended by the 1983 Act.

(2)

Article 2 of the Secretary of State for Social Services Order (see S.I. 1968/1699) transferred all functions of the Minister of Health to the Secretary of State for Social Services and article 2(1) of the Transfer of Functions (Health and Social Security) Order 1988 (see S.I. 1988/1843) transferred certain of those functions, including those in relation to registration of births, deaths and marriages to the Secretary of State for Health.

(3)

S.I. 1992/2982. That Order was not legally effective as respects the matters dealt with in Article 3 of this Order.

(4)

1938 c. 69. The whole Act was repealed by section 29(4) of, and Schedule 7 to, the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38).

(5)

1950 c. 28. This section was repealed by section 29(4) of, and Schedule 7 to, the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38).