Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3165

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS,MARRIAGES, ETC.

ENGLAND AND WALES

The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2000

Made

29th November 2000

Laid before Parliament

30th November 2000

Coming into force

1st January 2001

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in exercise of the powers conferred 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 him(2) and section 31(5F) of the Marriage Act 1949(3) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—

(1)

1968 c. 14; paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 was amended by section 116(1) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 9 to, the Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), and by section 4 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), and also by section 582(1) of, and paragraph 14 of Schedule 37 to, the Education Act 1996 (c. 56). 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)

References to “the Chancellor of the Exchequer” were substituted in the second column of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to the 1968 Act by article 5(1) of, and paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 to, the Transfer of Functions (Registration and Statistics) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/273).

(3)

Section 31(5F) was inserted by section 160(6) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (c. 33).