Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 1997

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES, ETC., ENGLAND AND WALES

The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2005

Made

19th July 2005

Laid before Parliament

20th July 2005

Coming into force

5th December 2005

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968(1) and now vested in him(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 5^th December.

(2) In this Order—

(a)“the principal Order” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 2002(3); and

(b)a reference to a numbered column is to the column in the Schedule to the principal Order bearing that number.

Amendment of the principal Order

2. In the Schedule to the principal Order the entries made in respect of the Marriage Act 1949 are amended as follows—

(a)in the entry relating to section 27(7) (attendance of superintendent registrar other than at his office etc), in column (4), for “£40.00” substitute “£47.00”;

(b)in the entry relating to section 51(1) (fee of registrar for attending marriage), in column (4), for “£34.00” and “£40.00” substitute respectively “£40.00” and “£47.00”; and

(c)in the entry relating to section 51(2) (fee of superintendent registrar attending marriage etc), in column (4), for “£40.00” substitute “£47.00”.

Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer

John Healey

Financial Secretary to the Treasury HM Treasury

19th July 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) Order 2002 by increasing some of the fees payable in respect of a civil marriage.

The fees increased are those—

(a)for the attendance of a superintendent registrar away from his office, to take a notice marriage from a housebound or detained person (from £40 to £47),

(b)for the attendance of a registrar of marriages at a marriage in a register office (from £34 to £40), and

(c)for the attendance of a superintendent registrar and a registrar of marriages at a marriage at the residence of a house-bound or detained person (from £40 to £47 each).

This Order does not impose a charge on business.

(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); by section 4 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6); and 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 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 paragraph 1 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)

S.I. 2002/3076.