The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 5th October 2016.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1949 Act” means the Marriage Act 1949;

“the 1953 Act” means the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953;

a “priority service” is a service provided to a person who makes an application to the Registrar General—

(a)

by giving the relevant information and paying the correct fee by—

(i)

attending in person at the General Register Office between 10:00 and 16:00 hours on a working day; or

(ii)

post, telephone, or electronic means which is received by the Registrar General before 16:00 hours on a working day; and

(b)

where the document applied for is normally provided on or before the next working day by sending by first class post or to a person attending in person at the General Register Office between 10:00 hours and 16:00 hours;

“relevant information” means—

(a)

in the case of a short certificate of birth provided under section 33(1) of the 1953 Act, the particulars prescribed by regulation 63 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987(1);

(b)

in the case of a certified copy of an entry provided under section 65(2)(2) of the 1949 Act or section 30(2)(3) of the 1953 Act, either a reference number relating to an index kept by the Registrar General under section 65(1) of the 1949 Act or section 30(1) or (1A) of the 1953 Act corresponding to the certified copy for which the application is made, or sufficient information which allows the Registrar General to establish such reference number;

a “standard service” is a service—

(a)

provided to a person who makes an application to the Registrar General by giving the relevant information and paying the correct fee by—

(i)

attending in person at the General Register Office between 10:00 and 16:00 hours on a working day; or

(ii)

post, telephone, or electronic means which is received by the Registrar General before 16:00 hours on a working day; and

(b)

where the document applied for is normally provided—

(i)

in a case where the application includes a reference to the number relating to the index kept by the Registrar General under section 65(1) of the 1949 Act or section 30(1) or (1A)(4) of the 1953 Act, on or before the 4th working day after the working day on which such application is made; or

(ii)

in a case where that application does not include such a reference number, on or before the 15th working day after the working day on which such application is made,

by sending by second class post or to a person attending in person at the General Register Office between 10:00 hours and 16:00 hours; and

“working day” means a day which is not a Saturday or a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(5) in England and Wales.

Fees

3.—(1) In respect of the services or matters set out in column 2 of the table in Schedule 1 (for which provision is made under the enactment specified in column 1) the fee specified in column 3 is payable to the person specified in column 4.

(2) In any case where it appears to the Registrar General that payment of the fee in row 24 would cause hardship to the parties to the intended marriage, the Registrar General may waive the fee in whole or in part.

Revocations and amendments

4.  Schedule 2 (revocations and amendments) has effect.

Robert Goodwill

Minister of State

Home Office

12th September 2016