The Local Government (Registration Service in Wales) Order 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for changes to the local registration service in Wales in consequence of the reorganisation of local government from 1st April 1996, under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.

Article 2 provides for schemes to be made by the councils of the new counties and county boroughs establishing registration districts and sub-districts, determining the location of registration offices and the number of superintendent registrars of birth and deaths and other offices required for the purpose of the Registration Acts. Registration officers holding office immediately before 1st April 1996 will be transferred by the Order on that date to one of the new authorities under Article 3 and Article 4 provides for the allocation of the posts described in the registration scheme to individual officers transferred.

The Order also contains transitional provisions with regard to notices given and certificates issued under the Marriage Act 1949; marriage to be solemnised before registration officers, and the registration of births and deaths.